Engels was, course, quite right to debunk belief
in ghosts and mediums. In fact there were some
political reasons behind this. At the time that
Engels wrote this, spiritualism was quite popular
within the IWMA, especially in the US and UK.
In the US, one of the leading figures in the IWMA,
should have discussed Hume's essay and showed
where Hume went wrong. Jim Farmelant -- Charles
Brown charl...@cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us wrote:
Engelsâ Dialectics of Nature
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