I think that science is bound to answer
Every question that comes to hand, sir.
Then why do some scientists fail to acknowledge
Discoveries made outside of their college?
There's a reason for all things that come to pass,
And no man likes to be proved an ass;
And hence they refuse to agree with St. Paul,
The spiritual body is all in all.
19. HERBERT SPENCER, British Philosopher, as reported by Rev. M. J.
Savage.
'Tis all in a muddle we cannot make out,
Nor does evolution diminish the doubt;
The facts that we get prove very refractory,
And I cannot find anything quite satisfactory.
20. PROF. CHARLES S. PIERCE, A.M., of Johns Hopkins University, (a
voluminous reply).
I've looked this question through and through,
But for future life the prospect's blue.
Psychic Researchers have gathered up much,
But it crumbles to dust beneath my touch.
'Tis nothing but rubbish that Society brings,
For the ghosts they have found are the stupidest things,
Poor "starveling" idiots, all of that ilk,
Who are coming back here to cry over "spilled milk."
Serenely we smile at "the lamp of Aladdin,"
And stories of ghosts about this world gadding.
Yet after all, I don't believe in Spencer,
In Kant or in Comte, or in any of them, sir;
Nor in Christendom's sacred and reverend creed,
Though weaklings adopt it because they have need;
But I believe in this world's events,
And a life regulated by common sense.