" Impromptu" writes : —Mr. S. Edgcr remarked, at the conclusion of Mrs. Britten's lecture last night in the Temperance Hall, "that he had not heard from Mrs. Britt"n one siugle sentence from which he could dissent," aud he seems not only to satisfy his own mind, but answers for every other " liberal and candid mind" id this com munity. However, before ho offers a challenge to all and Bundry, and before he would make people swallow his decoction, let him answer th* following, " What is spirit (i.e., the soul) in its essence V' Mrs. Britten asserted that the " intelligence in the lower order of creation was spirit," but "not manifested to the same extent as that in reasoning man." What is the nature of this grade of soul ? Next to show a tangible spirit—a live one, or a dead person's spirit, as the case may be. .Again, the transmission of one individual's spirit to another !
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5632, 4 December 1879, Page 5
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