Eliab Wilkinson Capron 
Modern Spiritualism: Its Facts and Fanaticisms, Its Consistencies and Contradictions 
With an Appendix

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The entire separation, made by the old philosophy and theology, between spirit and matter, has led thousands of philosophical minds to reject all idea of any existence of persons beyond the tangible form which men now occupy. They have failed entirely of obtaining, from old traditions, proof which looked rational to them of any such existence. The great difficulty in the way of such minds, as before intimated, is the great break in the chain between tangible and (to us) intangible substance. The fact that men could not, in a normal state, see the more refined substance to which we give the name spirit, has led theologians to declare that there was an existence, not only intangible, but absolutely something beyond, and entirely separate from, matter.