GHOSTS AND THE BALANCE OF DOUBT.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIEe•—IS it hypercritical to suggest that the arguments in the discussion which you have raised in so though tfnl and interesting a manner on the above subject would be made clearer by the use of the word " preternatural " instead of " supernatural"? No confirmation, however complete, of the phenomena in question would bring them into any relation with that life which the Christian faith declares to be another and higher life than that of Nature. The theory on which the psychical investigations proceed is that there are a series of facts which may become intelligible alongside of what we already know of the order of Nature, and which may be brought into line with it. But there is not the least indication
—nay, there is an absolute denial—that they ha4, or ever can have, any relation to the Christian faith.—I am, Sir, &c., E. S.
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