SQUALID SPIRITUALISM
A LINE FROM CONRAD. The great novelist Joseph Conrad, in a paper on ‘The Life Beyond.’ says: . . . An immortality liable at any moment to betray itself fatuously by the forcible incantations of Mr Stead or Professor Crookes is scarcely worth having. Can you imagine anything more squalid than an immortality at the beck and call of Eusapia Palladino? That woman lives on tho top floor of a Neapolitan house, and gets our poor, pitiful, august dead, flesh of our flesh, bone of our hone, spirit of our spirit, who have loved, suffered, and died, as wo must love, suffer, and die —sho gets them to beat tambourines in a corner and protrude shadowy* limbs through a curtain. This is particularly horrible, because, if one had to put one’s faith in these things one could not even die safely from disgust, as one would long to do.
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Evening Star, Issue 17706, 6 July 1921, Page 2
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148SQUALID SPIRITUALISM Evening Star, Issue 17706, 6 July 1921, Page 2
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