A will in the United States.

“In the State of Maine, in the United States, a lady was pleading for the nullity of a will of her mother. She said that, being a member of a Spiritist society, her mother had written her last wishes under the dictation of a turning table.

“The judge declared that the law did not prohibit consultations with turning tables, and the clauses of the will were upheld.”

We have not yet reached such a point in Europe. For this reason, the French journal that reports the fact prefaced it with this exclamation: They are strong, those Americans! Understand: They are fools!

Whatever the author of this critical reflection may think, those Americans may, on certain points, serve as an example to old Europe, when the latter still drags on for so long in the routine of old prejudices. The progressive movement of Humanity set out from the Orient and little by little propagated itself toward the Occident; would it have already crossed the Atlantic and planted its banner on the new continent, leaving Europe in the rearguard, as Europe left India? Is it a law and would the cycle of progress have already gone several times around the world? The following fact might lead one to suppose so.