To accept the spiritist faith even as a "working hypothesis" was impossible to his definite type of mind.
Being confronted with a true believer, he automatically assumed the opposite position, and with searching scorn assailed the whole spiritist camp with merciless knowledge of every defenceless portal.
Every Spiritist who went a certain way in Materialism was libelled in turn; but the semi-Materialist could always indemnify himself by libelling those who went further.
His attention, he goes on to say, was first drawn to spiritist phenomena by the word of a friend who had discovered a power that caused a table to move intelligently.
A spiritistwould say: 'John King explored the cabinet.
Would that necessarily make the spiritist theory untenable?
A spiritist would say that her guides were insisting on the most rigid test.
The synchronism he speaks of might exist, and only be a proof of what the spiritist admits--that the presence and activity of the materializing spirit are closely circumscribed by the medium.
This is the problem that requires real expertness, and this is where the simple sentimentalisms of the spiritist and scientist leave us in the lurch completely.
Thus he told me one day, the sparrow-hawks are easily influenced by the spirits, and he uses them as the hypnotist makes use of somnambulism, as the spiritist makes use of tables and slates.
The spiritist voyagers may not have reached the Indies of their hopes, yet may have stumbled upon an unsuspected America.
To many of us, the extreme difficulty of such a conception is the one great barrier to the acceptance of the spiritist theory, for which remarkable evidence can certainly be adduced.
In other words, psychical research, if conducted by the experimental method and without bias, may be pregnant with consequences hardly in accord with the hopes of either the spiritist or spiritualist (in its religious sense).
In contrast to Russia, Norway, with its paucity of arable soil and of other natural resources, finds its long indented coastline and the coast-bred seamanship of its people a progressively important national asset.
Evil spirits reign over them, and the utterance of every rascally spiritist is thoroughly believed.
If one sticks to the detail, one may draw an anti-spiritist conclusion; if one thinks more of what the whole mass may signify, one may well incline to spiritist interpretations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spiritist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
