110. We are far from regarding the theory which we are about to set forth, as
being absolutely true in every minute particular, or as giving an exhaustive explanation
of the subjects which which it deals. The instructions we have already derived from our
spirit-teachers will doubtless be
completed or rectified by future studies; but, however incomplete or imperfect our
theory at this time, it will at least assist us to comprehend the possibility of certain
facts, by showing that they result from the action of natural causes, and are therefore in
no way supernatural. Regarded as a hypothesis, it is one the reasonableness and
probability of which cannot be denied, and which may fairly claim to be worth all the
arguments employed by our opponents to prove that there is nothing but illusion,
phantasmagoria, and deception, in spirit-phenomena.
