THE SPIRIT WORLD.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9674, 23 December 1909, Page 3

THE SPIRIT WORLD.

I While Mr Stead is ramping up and I down the spirit world securing clients for the Julia Bureau, Mr Everard Feilding has been carrying out psychial researches with considerably more reserve and caution. It must, however, be corfessed his experiments are not contradictory in the main to some of the ideas which Mr Stead holds. He concludes h very interesting paper in the Nineteenth Century in these words: —"While I have convinced myself <if the reality of these phenomenon, and of the existence of some force not yet generally recognised, which is able to impress itself on matter, and to stimulate or create the appearance of matter, I refrain for the present frorr. speculating upon its nature. Yet it is just in this speculation that the whole interest of the subject lies. The force—if we are driver, as lam confident we are. to pre-suppose one other than mere conjuring—must either reside in the medium herself and be of the nature of an extension of human faculty beyond what is generally recognised, or must be a force having its origin in something apparently intelligent and external to her, operating either directly from itself, or indirectly through or in conjunction with nome special attribute of her organism. The phenomena, then—in themselves preposterous, futile, and lacking in any quality of the smallest ethical, ieligious or spiritual value—are, nevertheless, symptomatic of something which, put at its lowest by choosing the first hypothesis, must.' as it filters gradually into our common knowledge, most profoundly modify the whole of our philosophy of human faculty; but which, if that hypothesis is found insufficient, may ultimately be judged to require an interpretation involving something further—namely, a change in our conception of the relations between mankind and an intelligent spnere external to it."