ISBN: 9780217350044

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1863. Not … Altro …

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1863. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... WHEN Spiritualism had, for nearly a hundred years, been exhibiting itself in Germany under a variety of phases, and had enlisted in its cause some of its most distinguished philosophers and savans, as I have narrated in my second chapter, it made a new and still more general appearance in the Western hemisphere. It originated in the ordinary visit of what the Germans had denominated a Polter-Geist, or knocking-ghost; but either the temperament of the North-American public was more favourable to its rapid developement, or the time had come in the general scheme of Providence for a more full and decided prevalence of spiritual action; for it spread with almost lightning rapidity, assumed new and startling forms, and speedily established itself a great and significant fact in the convictions of more than three millions of people of all classes, professions, and persuasions. My sketch of the history of this developement in the United States must, necessarily, be slight; its details fill several large volumes, and may be sought for in Capron''s history of these events, in ''Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World,'' by the Hon. Robert OUTBREAK OF SPIRITUALISM IN AMERICA. 169 Dale Owen; in the works of Professor Hare, Judge Edmonds, Governor Talmadge, the Rev. Adin Ballou; of J. P. Davis, the recent report on American Spiritualism byMr. Benjamin Coleman, the English ''Spiritual Magazine,'' and many other sources. The spot in which the eventful origin of the American movement took place is thus described by Mr. Dale Owen, who had visited it: ''There stands, not far from the town of Newark, in the county of Mayne, and state of New York, a wooden dwelling--one of a cluster of small houses like itself, scarcely meriting the title of a village, but known under the na... William Howitt, Books, Religion and Spirituality, The History Of The Supernatural In All Ages And Nations (volume 2); And In All Churches, Christian And Pagan Demonstrating A Unive Books>Religion and Spirituality, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 0217350046

ISBN: 0217350046

ISBN: 0217350046