Lamartine.

Before the oscillations of the sky and of the ship, Upon the swelling sea with its slow waves, Mentally man rounds a Cape of Storms, And passes beneath the lightning and the darkness, Stirring the tropic of another Humanity.

The Siècle of last May 20 cited these verses apropos of an article on the commercial crisis. What is Spiritist about them? one will ask. They speak neither of souls nor of Spirits. One might ask, with better reason, what relation they bear to the substance of the article in which they were framed, dealing with rates of merchandise. They concern Spiritism much more directly, for it is, under another form, the thought expressed by the Spirits regarding the future being prepared; it is, in a language at once sublime and concise, the announcement of the convulsions that Humanity will have to undergo for its regeneration, and which, from every side, the Spirits cause us to foresee as imminent. Everything is summed up in this profound thought: another Humanity, image of transformed Humanity, of the new moral world replacing the old world that is collapsing. The preliminaries of these modifications already make themselves felt, which is why the Spirits repeat to us in every way that the times have come. Mr.

Lamartine here made a true prophecy, whose realization we are beginning to see. [see Communication of Lamartine.]