Does Spiritualism Really Matter?
Does Spiritualism Really Matter? is a letter written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in the Cape Times (Cape Town, South Africa) on 17 november 1928.
Does Spiritualism Really Matter?
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"An Odd Argument" according to Sir A. Conan Doyle.
To the Editor, "Cape Times."
Sir, — I should, as you courteously suggest, be anticipating my own lectures if I went into points of detail at the present moment, but I would make the general remark that few would share the view expressed by your correspondent that the destiny of oneself and one's friends was a matter of small importance. Of all the odd arguments which I have encountered this seems to me the most strange. Any definite question which this gentleman may submit to me I will do my best to answer on Wednesday night. I would accept this general definition of a Spiritualist as one who holds that the human being survives unchanged in mind or body, have that he expresses himself in an etheric instead of a material environment, and that he has under proper conditions the power of communication. With your correspondent's other conclusions I cannot agree. — I am, etc.,
Arthur Conan Doyle
November 16