W. J. Crawford 
Hints and Observations for Those Investigating the Phenomena of Spiritualism 

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. HE belief of many thousands of persons, of whom I am one, is that man survives death. When he dies it is only his material body that dies. The essential part of him — the Spirit — lives on and functions in a new realm. He does not alter his human characteristics be cause he passes through the change of death, but he is human in the new world as he is in this.