t as such, it was a constant menace to all
good society; the embodiment of a cruel selfishness of a savage type,
which insisted that might makes right--that the strong should thrive by
preying upon the weak. In this position it boldly denied the immortality
of the soul, so far as the weaker workers were concerned. Therefore the
cheap lives of these poor people had no claim to be considered as
sacred, because they represented so many human souls. In the absence of
any practical or effective protest from the religions of the world, this
monstrous system of selfishness had in all these years, grown unchecked
and unmolested in its methods of cruel greed. From the shadows and gloom
of these threatening conditions, existing so manifestly in direct
violation of all progressive law, came a demand that the negative belief
in the immortality of the soul, be speedily replaced by a positive
knowledge of it. A knowledge sustained and supported by practical
demonstrations, through the action of natural law, whose manifestations
and demonstrations should be so direct and indisputable as to appeal
convincingly to the hard headed thinkers, who as a class, seemed to
represent a materialistic element that threatened to overthrow all
belief in immortality.

In answer to this demand, about the beginning of the last half of the
nineteenth century, there happened an event of the utmost importance,
potent with promise for the mighty spiritual unfoldment and general
advancement of the people of the twentieth century.

In the humble home of the Fox family, at the little village of
Hydesville, near Rochester, New York, by the co-operative efforts of
mortals and spirits, there was constructed and established a line of
communication between the two worlds--the mortal and the spiritual. Two
little children, the Fox girls, were the mediums, a combination of
operator and electric battery--or, in other words the necessary
instruments for successful spiritual telegraphy. In this obscure home of
the poor and lowly, in a quiet way, unheralded and unannounced, there
came to the world a knowledge of the existence of one of nature's
grandest laws, the law of mediumship; thereafter the way was open, on
the physical plane of existence, for an unlimited series of practical
demonstrations of the immortality of the human soul: the continuity of
conscious life was substantiated by an endless variety of proofs of the
most convincing character.

With this solutio