Nineteenth century miracles, or, Spirits and their work in every country of the earth : a complete historical compendium of the great movement known as "modern spiritualism" . ved for their political status. And still the noble work of freedom has but as yet begun. In the harvestday, when the fruits of true religious and political liberty shall be garneredup for the behoof of posterity, the Spirits of such, heroes as Garibaldi, theItalian, and Abraham Lincoln, the American, will be recognized as havingaided to finish the work of emancipation for the souls of men, which theybegan on earth for t
Nineteenth century miracles, or, Spirits and their work in every country of the earth : a complete historical compendium of the great movement known as "modern spiritualism" . ved for their political status. And still the noble work of freedom has but as yet begun. In the harvestday, when the fruits of true religious and political liberty shall be garneredup for the behoof of posterity, the Spirits of such, heroes as Garibaldi, theItalian, and Abraham Lincoln, the American, will be recognized as havingaided to finish the work of emancipation for the souls of men, which theybegan on earth for their material welfare. CHAPTER XLIX. SPIRITUALISM IN SPAIN, Whilst—what our American cousins would denominate as—the peculiarinstitutions of Spain, render it impossible to record public meetings orpublic gatherings for the promotion of Spiritual progress in Spain—thehistorian of this volume has been favoured with minutes of a vast numberof private circles, and evidences of a wide-spread interest on the subject ofSpiritualism existing in nearly all the large centres of Spanish referring to the superstitious beliefs still prevailing amongst the. Isaac B . Rich NINETEENTH CENTURY MIRACLES. 401 peasantry and lower classes, in that relic of barbarism styled witchcraft,with all its attendant circumstances of spells, enchantments, signs, tokens,&c., &c., it is enough to say, the people of Spain generally, cherish abroader faith in Spiritual verities than is taught in the communion ofsaints, or other church dogmas. It is a remarkable fact also, that in aliterary point of view few if any lands can excel Spain in the high tone andabundance of its SpirituaHstic writings. For causes that will become sufficiently apparent even in this brief notice,Spanish Spiritual literature is largely tinctured with the belligerent spiritcalled forth by clerical aggressions, but independent of this, few countriescan boast of a finer corps of Spiritual journalists than Spain, An
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