It need n't be true, to do this, any more than Homoeopathy need, to do its work.

The Spiritualists have some pretty strong instincts to pry over, which no doubt have been roughly handled by theologians at different times.

And the Nemesis of the pulpit comes, in a shape it little thought of, beginning with the snap of a toe-joint, and ending with such a crack of old beliefs that the roar of it is heard in all the ministers' studies of Christendom?
Sir, you cannot have people of cultivation, of pure character, sensible enough in common things, large-hearted women, grave judges, shrewd business-men, men of science, professing to be in communication with the spiritual world and keeping up constant intercourse with it, without its gradually reacting on the whole conception of that other life.

It is the folly of the world, constantly, which confounds its wisdom.

Not only out of the mouths of babes and sucklings, but out of the mouths of fools and cheats, we may often get our truest lessons.