The River Falls Journal

Spiritualism.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, in the last article in the Atlantic, says that 'Spiritualism is quietly undermining the traditional ideas of the future State which have been and are still accepted not merely in those who believe in it, but in the general sentiment of the community, to a larger extent than most good people seem to be aware of, just as Homoeopathy, even with those who pronounce it quackery has disabused the profession of the excessive use of drugs. It needn't be true, to do this, any more than Homoeopathy need to do its work.' * * * 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. For the fool's judgment is a dog vane that turns with a breath, and the cheat watches the clouds, and set his weather-cock by them so that one shall often see by their pointing which way the winds of heaven are blowing, when the slow wheeling arrows and feathers of what we call the Temples of Wisdom, are turning to all parts of the compass.