Kant's description of Berkeley's idealism as visionary and mystical is doubtless partly due to the old-time association of idealism in Kant's mind with the spiritualistic teaching of Swedenborg (W.
This unfortunate phraseology is directly traceable to the spiritualistic or Leibnizian character of Kant's earlier standpoint.
The earlyspiritualistic views were embodied in a terminology which he continued to employ; and unless the altered meaning of his terms is recognised and allowed for, misunderstanding is bound to result.
It is interesting, however, to observe that current spiritualistic theories maintain a naturalistic theory of immortality, verifiable, it is alleged, in certain extraordinary empirical observations.
Such attempts are so instructive as to make it worth our while to review them before proceeding with the development of the spiritualistic motive in subjectivism.
I was still banging about the room, then, and I said that I had finished with psychical research, that never again would I make the least inquiry with regard to a possible future life, or any kind of spiritualistic phenomenon.
And while this confirmed my suspicions that she was a spiritualistic medium, I recognised that she might have useful qualities as a cook.
My dear lady, you certainly are not lacking in confidence, but you must realize that I cannot advise a treatment for Mrs. Wells that involves the use of spiritualistic agencies when I do not believe in spiritualism.
He had never attended a spiritualistic séance and had no intention of doing so.
To the domain of unquestionable illusion belongs also the spiritualistic movement of Indian =Theosophism= or =Occultism=.
Fichte of Stuttgart and Ulrici of Halle have admitted the reality of spiritualistic communications and allege them as proofs of immortality.
Though my mother did not know of the spiritualistic orgies in Switzerland, she knew that my father was a spiritualist.
It was a new edition containing an 'added chapter,' full of subtle spiritualistic symbols.
Clearly there is nothing necessarily either magic or spiritualistic in this particular example of the magic mirror.
Mrs. Guppy-Volckman has been long known to the spiritualistic world as a very powerful medium, also as taking a great private interest in Spiritualism, which all media do not.
At the risk of being laughed at, I cannot refrain, in the course of this narrative of my spiritualistic experiences, from saying a few words about what is called "laying the cards.
Keningale Cook, who had married Mabel Collins, the now well-known writer of spiritualistic novels.
H---- was a complete disbeliever in the existence of a God and a future life, I was naturally not surprised to find that he did not place any credence in the account I gave him of my spiritualistic experiences.
I was a very constant press writer and reviewer, and to be unable to attend and report on spiritualistic meetings would have seriously militated against my professional interests.
I am the "Thomas, surnamed Didymus," of the spiritualistic world, who wants to see and touch and handle before I can altogether believe.
Mr. Tylor says: 'The spiritualistic theory specially insists on cases of apparitions, where the person's death corresponds more or less nearly with the time when some friend perceives his phantom.
But he began at the wrong end, namely at Pagan spiritualistic séances, with the usual accompaniments of darkness and fraud.
She wanted to arouse again by spiritualisticexperiments the lost belief in her supernatural powers; she concealed small objects in her dress, throwing them up in the air during the dark séance.
In spiritualistic séances it is not usual to see hysterical convulsions.
Since convinced spiritualists took part in the séances, all kinds of spiritualistic wonders were of course demanded, and especially the "protecting spirits.
She is said not to take part any longer in spiritualistic séances.
He has a perfect right to compare spiritualistic talk to "the chatter of old women and curates in a cathedral town"; but his anger has made him quite miss the logical point of the position.
Of course, the devil, or kobold, if Mr. Lewes prefers it, cannot be verified in the sense of caught and handed over to scientific men as a specimen of spiritualistic fauna.
But it is impossible to say; the spiritualistic system as developed by Allan Kardec (see Miss Blackwell's communication, Rep.
He owns that, on one occasion, he was "strongly impressed" by a spiritualistic manifestation.
When considered in relation to the whole mass of spiritualistic phenomena, its vague, unsatisfactory character becomes still more apparent.
What law we detect in spiritualistic phenomena I conceive to be the working of the conditions in subordination to which the devil is able to communicate with man.
And yet we may be more completely the victims of illusion than our vendor of spiritualistic revelation.
It seems to me that the whole Christian faith is spiritualistic in the widest sense of the word.
I can see no light or love in the attitude of those professors of Christianity who denounce all spiritualistic tendencies as anti-Christian.
The earthly life of Christ, with its supernatural manifestations, its miracles, and its wonders, was the supreme demonstration of the spiritualistic conception of the power of transcending matter.
It was said she bullied him terribly in general; and in the particular instance of his spiritualistic leanings she had her own views.
As this is really meant to be the record of a spiritualistic experience which came, if not precisely to Captain Johns himself, at any rate to his ship, there is no use in recording the other events of the passage out.
One system which is still more frequent than the astrological is the strictly spiritualistic one, which expresses itself in spirit returns and messages from the other world.
This is not exceptional, as practically every one of my spiritualistic correspondents has some “best means of communication between the two worlds.
The reader is referred to a passage in the concluding chapter, quoted from Mr. Myers, in which he claims an exalted position for Telepathy, as almost the fundamental doctrine of Spiritualistic Philosophy.
Home, is very instructive as illustrating the great care that is needful in estimating the value of testimony regarding spiritualistic phenomena, even of statements made by persons of established reputation and position.
I am not aware that Professor Sidgwick ever expressed any opinion as to the reality of the ordinary physical spiritualistic manifestations.
Home did work on the mind of Mrs. Lyon by means of spiritualistic devices, and further that he did so by suggesting communications from her deceased husband.
Mr. Maskelyne holds a dark séance, professing to expose the spiritualistic ones; Dr.
None of these manifestations, however, were sufficient to make the spiritualistic theory any other than a huge petitio principii.
She was performing, in fact, a sort of spiritualistic "Excelsior.
I thought it was Yorkshire, but a spiritualistic gentleman explained to me that it was "partly North American Indian.
Some of the details of this lady's case are very curious, but this is scarcely the place to dilate upon them further than as they affected my spiritualistic studies.
We began on Monday evening with a musical soirée at the Beethoven Rooms, in Harley Street; and there was certainly nothing ghostly or sepulchral in our opening day; only then there was nothing very spiritualistic either.
Mr. Spurgeon and the "diabolists" concede the whole of the spiritualistic position.
This will, I think, show that, even then, if I did not accept the spiritualistic theory, I did not by any means consider the position untenable.
I fancy, as far as any order is traceable in the somewhat erratic course ofspiritualistic experiences, that most people arrive at spiritualism viâ mesmerism.
Looks at an album] Here's their spiritualistic album.
Or, to come nearer to the point at issue, one may as well assert that the exposure of spiritualistic frauds has increased the number of 'mediums.
Contrast the state of affairs twenty-five years ago, before the crusade against spiritualistic humbug, with that of the present day.
But his doubt ofspiritualistic sincerity was not feigned.
The spiritualisticcoterie had found a satisfactory way of explaining Mr. Browning's antagonistic attitude towards it.
A short time later came the sensation which was to make the evening memorable in East Wellmouth's spiritualistic circles.
Some spiritualistic subject, very likely; the conversation seemed to be tending that way.
From this course of reasoning two plain deductions arise, either of which is disastrous to the spiritualistic theory.
As his tables did not rap, he had nothing to do with the spiritus percutiens, who proves, however, that the Church was acquainted with raps, and explained them by the spiritualistic hypothesis.
This is still the spiritualistic explanation of automatic speech.
As a professional conjurer, and exposer of spiritualistic imposture, Mr. Kellar has made statements about his own experiences which are not easily to be harmonised.
Again, we have the official explanation of the second sight, and that is the spiritualistic explanation.
This particular kind of manifestation, so very common in trials for witchcraft, and in modern spiritualistic literature, does not appear to prevail much among savages.
They have bequeathed to us a tendency to see the viewless things, and hear the airy tongues which they saw and heard; and they have left us the legacy of their animistic or spiritualistic explanation of these subjective experiences.
But modernspiritualistic and ghostly literature is full of lights which accompany 'manifestations,' or attend the nocturnal invasions of apparitions.
In these perplexities, Porphyry resembles the anxious spiritualistic inquirer.
This aspect of the modern spiritualistic epidemic did not escape attention.
The spiritualistic opinion is opposed to the doctrine of the resurrection: it merely announces the immortality of the soul.
No spiritualistic story has ever been told which is not to be classed among the phenomena of animal magnetism.
In the spiritualistic cases, we have the effect, with no visible cause; in ghost stories, we have the visible presence, but he very seldom indeed causes any physical change in any object.
Carpenter exposed and exploded a quantity of mesmeric spiritualistic myths narrated by Dr.
Was not that the name of the girl we met at Sir James Folker's dinner on the night of the spiritualistic performance?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spiritualistic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: clairvoyant; idealist; idealistic; psychic; psychical; spiritual; spiritualistic; telepathic
