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...thinks earnestly of another, he can cause that person to see his apparition. There is grave doubt of the reality of this class of phenomena. Spiritualistic Phenomena, (a). physical phenomena, such as table tipping; altering weight of bodies, etc.; (b), chemical phenomena, such as preserving men from fire; (c), direct writing, e. g. automatic writing of a pencil on a slate; (d), musical phenomena, e. g. automatic playing of accordeon, piano, etc.; (e), spirit forms, as of human beings. Spiritualism has arisen since 1848, and now the believers in it number about 20,000,000 persons. A commission, of which...
Such considerations as these led us to direct our editorial to the board of overseers. These gentlemen, with the promptness which marks all their proceedings, read the same, pondered upon it, and-were convinced. From that day to this they have been gradually screwing their courage to the sticking point. The sticking point has at last been reached, and their courage has stuck. A vote has been passed advising and recommending that the catalogue hereafter be printed in English, our natural tongue. There seems, then, little doubt but that hereafter we shall be able to recognize ourselves when her names...
These figures have disappointed the reasonable expectations of the direct ors in two respects. They had looked for a membership exceeding 1000, with a proportionally increased business ; and they had counted upon a rate of profit not less than five per cent. It is believed that the profits must have been greater than the figures indicate, and it is possible that the small percentage of profit appearing is due to mistakes in the inventory of stock recently taken...
...visit on that occasion was, I believe, to procure my subscription to the boat club; and I need not say that had Blake asked it of me, I would gladly have subscribed half my allowance. That boat club was the more or less direct occasion of our association together during our college residence; and though, perhaps, it helped to cost me my sheepskin, I am not yet regenerated from my impression that I made, upon the whole, the wiser choice. I speak, of course, for myself alone; and as Blake got his degree, the boat club had probably less...
...possess fifty of these institutions; Eolland, Spain, Russia, and Greece, about twenty five, while Great Britain contains about a dozen. The old universities of France were swept away by the Revolution, but a new system of education has since sprung up, the centre of which, established at Paris, has direct control over all the educational matters of the country. Of the Plussial universities, those of Prague and Heldeioerg, founded in the fifteenth century, are the oldest. The educational system of Germany ranks among the very best, and is admirably adapted for the advancement of science and philosophy. England has four...