If there are such spirits, why have they never manifested themselves?
Nobody every heard of the spirit of one's past self appearing at a spiritualist seance, for instance." "There is one evidence among others," replied Paul.

"that spiritualism is a fraud.

The mediums merely follow the vulgar superstition in the kind of spirits that they claim to produce." "Very likely you are right," said Mrs.Slater.

"In fact, I presume you are quite right.

And yet, if I really believed as you do, do you know what I would do?
I would go to some of the spirit mediums over in New York, of whom the papers are giving such wonderful accounts, and let them try to materialize for me the spirit of my youth.