OFF THE TRACK.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3, 2 September 1915, Page 3

OFF THE TRACK.

[To The Editor Stratford Post.] Sir, —The, correspondence going on between Messrs Boyle and Blake is not edifying. Mr Boyle has attacked a Mr Page, who was, I believe, holding meetings in the Forester’s Hall, and is an exponent of spiritualism. Mr Boyle, instead of attacking this ism, goes for Mr Page. Now, 1 have been reading on spiritualism —the opinion of the best scientific men of the day—and they endorse its claims. They say it is based on “facts.” Alfred Russel Wallace said: “The facts beat mo.” He tackled spiritualism to expose it. Professor Lombroso. of Italy, did the same, and ho was a bitter opponent, yet he gave in. Sir Oliver Lodge, last September, before a brilliant assemblage of scientific men, said: “I toll you with all the strength of the conviction which 1 can muster, that we do persist (after death). 1 have conversed with my friends just as 1 can converse with anyone in this audience now.”

If we want to settle “Tlio Mystery of Death” let ns take the opinions and convictions of the leading scientists of the age. I don’t want to know whether Mr Page speaks hy inspiration, or whether Mr Boyle lias “never seen anything more beautiful or edilying. more impressive or inspiring than a number' of people in church bowed in prayer.” This is no answer to the question of “The Mystery of Death.” Mr Boyle is, no doubt, a very emotional man ; and when lie says seriously that “when one is out in the fields one /is in the presence of the most awful tragedies,” I feel like the nigger, who said, “Golly, I tink dis ere nigger better take to de woods.”

I am an investigator, and expected to find something substantial in Mr Boyle’s adverse criticism of Mr Page. So far he has not attacked a philosophy which is making rapid strides in the face of much opposition both in the church and among materialists.— L am. etc., E. TKOTMAX.