Was Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist?
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Excerpt from Was Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist?: Or, Curious Revelation From the Life of a Trance Medium If he accepts Biblical history as final judgment upon the matter, his mind for a time comprehends an assured future life, and he finds a calm happiness in that belief. So long as he rests content in that belief, and accepts as truth all Biblical statements, he finds little motive for investigation. If he is truly intelligent, the hour arrives when he craves absolute proof of a future condition; or, if he wishes to answer what the prophet of old has left to follow man as a spectre through all the ages, and to remain with him from the first to the last hour of conscious understanding, he must investigate: "If a man die, shall be live again?" Therefore, not only does the question, in its vital importance and scope, make all men pause to consider it cautiously and honestly, but it has a personal value for each investigator. Spencer, Huxley, Darwin, Tyndall, Ingersoll, and other leading minds state that there is no return of the spirit after death, and that man, having ceased to breathe, bears precisely the same relation to the physical world as does vegetable matter, which lives, decays, or dies, and returns from whence it came - to inanimate matter, to clay. Human and brute life offer but little refutation of this theory. Insect and bird life indicate its possibility by exhibiting a positive change from the inanimate to the animate. Human reason, therefore, may logically set up the hypothesis, that if life can come from no life, and life disappear from life, presumption is strong that life still exists in some form, and that there is a mode of communication between the varied forms, but all persons do not comprehend that mode, or even know of it, and the fact that there is any such communication. We, therefore, have left open for our consideration and judgment, our acceptance or rejection, this subject as the prophet saw fit to leave it when it became necessary to prepare for his departure from this life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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