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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 35
The Devil's Sword Blunted; Spiritualism Examined and Condemned Out of the Mouths of Its Own Advocates
Contents
- Spiritualism Examined
- Introductory
- Spiritism: is Admitted by its Advocates to be Useless, Either as a Guide for Men, or the Revealer of New Truth p. 9
- That the Spirits are Deceivers, their Communications Utterly Unreliable and Contradictory, and Tending Backwards to the Heathenism of a By-Gone Age p. 12
- Its Contradictions p. 17
- The Impossibility of Identifying the Spirits : this Brightest Feature of Spiritism, is a Broken Reed to lean Upon, and Supplies no Comfort to the Friends of the Departed p. 22
- Its Teachings are Absurd, Irrational, and Irreligious p. 42
- It is Opposed to all Law; is Destructive of the Distinction Between Right and Wrong; and, as a Consequence, Destroys Moral Character p. 50
- The Dangers of Spirit-Mediumsiiip : it Destroys Individuality and Power of Self-Control, and is an Incentive to Crime p. 62
- Spiritism is Atheistical and Destructive of Moral Responsibility p. 81
- It is the Enemy of Marriage; and of Social and Domestic Happiness p. 90
- It is the Forerunner of Political Anarchy p. 105
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