without the brain and nervous system declared by physiologists to be indispensable to the very existence of any intelligence. This is the real reason why modern Spiritualism cannot get a hearing with most scientific men. The latest position of science is that mind itself is the product of matter and force, organ ised in such a system as man's. Without such a material nervous system, mind, it is repeated ad nauseam, cannot exist, much less manifest itself. Modern Spiritualism affects to supply direct evidence to the contrary. It offers to produce intelligence of some kind, acting upon matter, and yet unconnected with a brain and a nervous system. If this could be proved, the materialist argument would at once fall, for if intelligence similar to ours exists, and can operate outside the usual organised conditions, our own souls may—we do not say must-do the same. God is conceivable, and intelligence ceases to be the mere product of force and matter specially organised. 37. Case of Jenkins versus Cooke. 38. Disembodied Spirits. 39. Spirits in and out of the Body. THE DEVIL. 52. Christ's use of "Beelzebub." 57. Early Christian Devil. 60. Satan on the Stage. 61. The Earliest Picture of Satan. 62. The Doctrine of the Devil. 63. The Revival of the Devil. 64. What is reasonable to believe. 65. Our physical States. 66. Devil or no Devil, we are free. 67. The Good Voices. برسم II. THE DEVIL. AM going to speak on the subject of the Devil. I shall say nothing uncivil of the poor clergyman who wanted to get his parishioner to say he believed in the Devil before he consented to give him the sacrament, nor of the sentence reversed on appeal to the Privy Council. It may be a satisfaction for common folk to know that a man's disbelief in the personality of the ArchFiend does not constitute him "a notorious evil liver," or necessarily "a depraver of the Book of Common Prayer." So much good has come out of the late case of Jenkins versus Cooke. But it is strange indeed to see the Foul Fiend (commonly known as |