Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Spiritualism, Periodicals, Reason, Charlatanry

    Discusses an argument made in the Spiritual Magazine that it is 'pleased to have Punch as an enemy rather than as a friend, for he is doing good to the cause by making it more extensively known'. Believes this illustrates that the 'Spiritualist mind [...] does not reason', and points out that if Punch did support 'such humbugs as the Spiritualists [...] his circulation and his character would be injured'. Agrees with the Spiritual Magazine that Punch has helped the 'Spiritualist cause' by exposing 'the trickery by which it is supported'.