Excerpt from Backward Glimpses

Curiosity, after all, is the hook that fishes out more knowledge than any other trait in the human character; and so my appeal will first touch the never-satisfied hunger of the buzzard bird who sits a croaker around our well-spring of thought.

In the many attempts I have made to reach the tidal shores of Time, I have met the rebutting spirit of incredulity; and I have said, each and every time, my hour of presentation is yet in the future; wait until the bride and the bridegroom say come. And I have waited for the hour when no man need be deceived or ashamed to face the truth of Spirit communion. And now, when the soul craves more light, shall I withhold my feeble torch?

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