Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1889 — Spiritualism to Be Investigated. [ARTICLE]

Spiritualism to Be Investigated.

By the terms of the will of the late Henry Seybert, a rich and eccentric citizen of Philadelphia, the later years of whose life were absorbed in the vain effort to get at the truth of what is known as Spiritualism, a considerable legacy ($50,000) has been bequeathed to the university to found a professorship of intellectual and moral philosophy, with the proviso that the authorities shall undertake to make a thorough investigation of the phenomena of moj.era Spiritualism, and publish the evidence and the conclusions to which it leads. The university has accepted the bequest, and has appointed a committee of five members of its faculty to conduct the investigation. This committee comprises among its members the provost (an M. D.), and the professors of chemistry, social and anatomy, and a tutor, who is a clergy man.— PhrenolooC-'’ 1 Journal Ckun and effect are not well balanced. A man with a good CMueoften make little or do effect