SUPERSTITION AND UNBELIEF.
By Churchman
Of all the crazy fads of which the present age has been so prolific, the craziest is that which has dubbed itself "Esoteric Buddhism." Never in the history of human folly has superstition so vehemently set at nought the most confident assertions of unbelief. While "the scientific world" drifts toward a dull materialism, millions of persons living in the most enlightened countries and numbering among them men of high scientific distinction, have run into the extravagances of Spiritualism. At the very time when Professor Huxley sneers at the possibility of miracle, and derides the miracles of the gospel as "pig-stories," thousands of so called theosophists are ready to believe the marvels of Madame Blavatski; and while Christian teachers are troubled over "the evidences," there are societies of professedly very learned Englishmen and Americans who accept "Esoteric Buddhism" without any evidence at all. So true is it that between superstition and unbelief there is but a single step.