This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: … SPIRIT MANIFESTATIONS. As a pertinent expose of the mad vagaries of Spiritualism, we append a review of Dr. Eobert Hare’s book, entitled Experimental Investigation of the Spirit Manifestations, from the columns of the New York Independent. Experimental Investigation Of The Spirit Manifestations–Demonstrating the Existence of Spirits, and their communion with mortals. Doctrine of the Spirit World respecting Heaven, Hell, Morality and God. Also the influence of Scripture on the Morals of Christians. By Robert Hare, M. D., Emeritus Professor of Chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate of Yale College and Harvard University, Associate of the Smithsonian Institute, and member of various learned Societies. New York: Partridge & Brittan. Dr. Robert Hare, Emeritus Professor, &c, &c, and member of various learned societies, is also one of that class of persons
who have said in their hearts, there is no God. From some hints at his anterior history in the book before us, we gather that for upwards of fifty years he has been a professor of the grossest materialism, only distinguished from sheer atheism by the childish belief in a heathenish deity of enormous, though not unlimited power. He has believed neither in prayer, nor in Providence, nor in a future life; neither in angel nor spirit. He has been without hope
and without God in the world. Dr. Hare is also a chemist of good repute in the scientific world, who has distinguished himself by important contributions to science, –contributions, which, we believe, have been generally the result of a high degree of mechanical skill and ingenuity, rather than of eminent powers of scientific investigation. We are not aware that his character for veracity and integrity has ever…