[lbo-talk] Natural Science and the Spirit World

Charles Brown charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us
Mon Jan 12 06:15:41 PST 2009


http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1883/don/ch10.htm

"And so empiricism finds itself compelled to refute the importunate spirit-seers not by means of empirical experiments, but by theoretical considerations, and to say, with Huxley[8]: “The only good that I can see in the demonstration of the truth of ‘spiritualism’ is to furnish an additional argument against suicide. Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a ‘medium’ hired at a guinea a séance!"

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