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and barren uncertainties behind them; and
there are, I imagine, few among the
younger of them that can show from the
earliest hour, as this one does, promises of
a harvest which may not be the harvest of
their conscious sowing, but which already
bids fair to yield much unknown and won-
drous fruit. 1

____________________
1 To exhaust this question of survival and of com-
munications with the dead, I ought to speak of Dr.
Hyslop's recent investigations, made with the assistance
of the mediums Smead and Chenoweth (communica-
tions with William James). I ought also to mention
Julia's famous "bureau," and, above all, the extraordi-
nary sittings of Mrs. Wriedt, the trumpet medium, who
not only obtains communications in which the dead
speak languages of which she herself is completely
ignorant, but raises apparitions said to be extremely
disturbing. I ought, lastly, to examine the facts set
forth by Professor Porro, Dr. Venzano and M. Rozanne
and many other things besides, for spiritualistic in-
vestigation and literature are already piling volume
upon volume. But it was not my intention nor my
pretension to make a complete study of scientific spi-
ritualism. I wished merely to omit no essential point
and to give a general but accurate idea of this posthu-
mous atmosphere which no really new and decisive
fact has come to unsettle since the manifestations of
which we have spoken.

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Publication Information: Book Title: Our Eternity. Contributors: Maurice Maeterlinck - author, Alexander Teixeira De Mattos - transltr. Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1913. Page Number: 146.
    
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