Ay, and who has not felt that in himself or herself was power in the deep love for our dead to make them quick again, did we but know the secret of how it was to be done?
For myself, I have seen such mysteries that I am open to conviction regarding things not yet explained.

These have been, of course, amongst savages or those old-world people who have brought unchecked traditions and beliefs--ay, and powers too--down the ages from the dim days when the world was young; when forces were elemental, and Nature's handiwork was experimental rather than completed.

Some of these wonders may have been older still than the accepted period of our own period of creation.

May we not have to-day other wonders, different only in method, but not more susceptible of belief?
Obi-ism and Fantee-ism have been exercised in my own presence, and their results proved by the evidence of my own eyes and other senses.

So, too, have stranger rites, with the same object and the same success, in the far Pacific Islands.