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which they adopt, is also said of you, who are spiritualists, by some of your fil-informed Christian brothers. The same argument that you present in meeting the objection I also can and do adopt as my answer, since if I should seek to formulate answer it could 110 be more pertinent or more just. I find that answer in a book which I have considered for the first time on these grounds, and the author of which, well known to you, for he is on this platform, is not only my brother, but my friend, whom I have learned not only to admire but to love. The book is entitled Angel's Visits to my Farm in Florida." The author's name is "Golden Light," but the pronounciation would be different. In that book I find this paragraph which I will now read, and in the translation of it to my own people. I should substitute for Spiritualism, Hinduism. The author says to the objector to Spiritualism as I would say to the obiector to Hinduism.
"I suggested that perhaps public opinion in many things was based on misconception, and ignorance of the real truth, principles and facts underlying and constituting the philosophy of spiritualism. It is of the very first importance, in the first estimate of this philosophy and its adherents and advocates, to know whether or not its principles and teachings are in themselves moral, judged by the highest standards.
Is the morality of this philosophy different from that
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