In his remarkably interesting novel, Howard Sturgis, with a skilful touch, describes life in the rich and self-indulgent aristocratic society. It traces the career of a young man, Sainty, brought up in the midst of great luxury. Indecision of character is the weakness of Sainty. He allows himself to
Vital Message (Classic Reprint)
β Scribed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Publisher
- Forgotten Books
- Year
- 2010;2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 62 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1440094454
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PREFACE I N "The New Revelation" the first dawn of the coming change has been described. In "The Vital Message" the sun has risen higher, and one sees more clearly and broadly what our new relations with the Unseen may be. As I look into the future of the human race I am reminded of how once, from amid the bleak chaos of rock and snow at the head of an A1pine pass, I looked down upon the far- , , stretching view of Lombardy, shimmering in the sunshine, and extending in one splendi~ panorama of blue lakes and green rolling hills until it melted into the ,golden haze which draped the far horizon. Such a promised land is at our very feet, which, when we attain it, will make our present civilisation seem barren and uncouth. Already our vanguard is "veIl over the pass. Nothing can now prevent us from reaching that vonderful land vhich stretches so clearly before those eyes vhich are opened to see it. That stimulating writer, V. C. Desertis, has rema
Table of Contents
CONTENTS; CHAPTER I; THE TWO NEEDFUL READJUSTMENTS; CHAPTER II; THE DAWNING OF THE LIGHT -; CHAPTER III; THE GREAT ARGUMENT; CHAPTER IV; fHE COMING WORLD; CHAPTER V; IS IT THE SECOND DAWN? -; ?; APPENDICES; A DOCTOR GELEY~S RESULTS; D A PARTICULAR INSTANCE; C SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY -; D THE CLAIRVOYANCE OF MRS D; PAGE; 1; 18; 41; 75; - 100; - 127; - 137; - 141; - 146 ILLUSTRATIONS; Pages 143-145; PLATE I-Impression received upon a marked plate; which never went out of the author's hands,; save when it was in the carrier There is a; partial materialization behind In front is an; inscription signed "T Colley"; PLATE II-Specilnen of Archdeacon Colley's writing; during his lifetime; PLATE IlL-Photograph in life of Lieut Will Hewat; Mackenzie; PLATE IV-Photograph of Lieut Vil1 Hewat Mackenzie,; taken some months after his death, In; the circumstances described in the text
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