Abstract
The only method known to science of extracting information from deceased persons is the discovery of documents.—Sir Oliver Lodge. The reconstruction periods following devastating wars are axiomatically characterized by widespread nervous unrest. The causes and effects of this universal state of nerves are too familiar to require mention. One of the most readily understood accompaniments of such a period of readjustment is a recrudescence of all kinds of religious activity and of divers affiliated undertakings. Of these phenomena perhaps the most striking, because of certain personages involved, is the contemporary wave of spiritism. In the western world this wave, which has taken form in the spectacular missionary tour of England's foremost spirit-scientist, has flowed across the states from East to West, and is now receding through the provinces from West to East. It promises temporary interest or enthusiasm, to be followed by forgetfulness, awaiting the impetus of a later wave.
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