Excerpt from Extemporaneous Addresses: Spoken at the Winter Soirees Held at Harley Street, London, 1865 If it had been contemplated, in the first instance, to form a book of these Addresses, an attempt might possibly have been made to arrange the subjects in a somewhat more orderly sequence, so that the connection, from step to step, between the more external and more interior phases of the subject of Spiritualism to which they all related, might have been made more readily apparent to persons less familiarly acquainted with the subject than the great majority of the ladies and gentlemen present. Such a plan, however, formed no part of the object of the Committee: the subject of each evening's Address arose from time to time, spontaneously; and that which seemed most likely to be of general interest was adopted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.