mix and mingle until the impossible becomes common, and the
natural absurd.

_Question_. Do you believe that any sane man ever had a vision?

_Answer_. Of course, the sane and insane have visions, dreams.
I do not believe that any man, sane or insane, was ever visited by
an angel or spirit, or ever received any information from the dead.

_Question_. Setting aside from consideration the so-called physical
manifestations of the mediums, has Spiritualism offered any proof
of the immortality of the soul?

_Answer_. Of course Spiritualism offers what it calls proof of
immortality. That is its principal business. Thousands and
thousands of good, honest, intelligent people think the proof
sufficient. They receive what they believe to be messages from
the departed, and now and then the spirits assume their old forms
--including garments--and pass through walls and doors as light
passes through glass. Do these things really happen? If the
spirits of the dead do return, then the fact of another life is
established. It all depends on the evidence. Our senses are easily
deceived, and some people have more confidence in their reason than
in their senses.

_Question_. Do you not believe that such a man as Robert Dale Owen
was sincere? What was the real state of mind of the author of
"Footfalls on the Boundaries of Another World"?

_Answer_. Without the slightest doubt, Robert Dale Owen was sincere.
He was one of the best of men. His father labored all his life
for the good of others. Robert Owen, the father, had a debate, in
Cincinnati, with the Rev. Alexander Campbell, the founder of the
Campbellite Church. Campbell was no match for Owen, and yet the
audience was almost unanimously against Owen.

Robert Dale Owen was an intelligent, thoughtful, honest man. He
was deceived by several mediums, but remained a believer. He wanted
Spiritualism to be true. He hungered and thirsted for another
life. He explained everything that was mysterious or curious by
assuming the interference of spirits. He was a good man, but a
poor investigator. He thought that people were all honest.

_Question_. What do you understand the Spiritualist means when he
claims that the soul goes to the "Summer land," and there continues
to work and evolute to higher planes?

_Answer_. No one pretends to know where "heaven" is. The celestial
realm is the blessed somewhere in the unknown nowhere. So far as
I know, the "Summer lan