SPIRITUALISM.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 6642, 18 October 1888, Page 2

SPIRITUALISM.

Mbs Majioabbt Eox Kane, widow of Kano, the American Arctic oiplorcr, and ono of the famous Fox sisters who originated spiritualism manyjearsago by tho Rochester knockings, declared forcibly and explicitly in an interriew on Septombor 23rd, nt her house in New York, that tho wholo system i\as a deception, and she proposed to lay it baro to its very foundation. " I know," sho addod, " that every effect at seances is produced by wliolcsalo fraud." So reads tho latest sensation. Not everybody will bo astonished; for a very great number of rational peoplo never did beliovo in tho cult, though thero wns somo hesitation about accepting the theory that all believors in spiritualism wero conscious Of fraud. Thero aro spiritualists whoso earnestness is beyond question. But after all faith has little to do with truth; in fact, tho more faith the less truth. A spirit raps your shins : is that ft roason for believing in occult influoncoa operating from an unseen world ? If the spirits could do ono physical act, why should thoy not do a thousand in every conceivable form; why should they not prepare our matutinnl cup of tea, and with fairy fingers bring it to the bedside ? Yet it is not any tho more falso because a professor has declared hersolf an impostorAn avcrago amount of common sense was only required to boo the fraud from the beginning.