Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Home Circle Fraternity: Evolution of a New Religion
The Life Work of John R. Francis was largely along the lines of education and philanthropy. His intimate association with Spiritualists showed him that many of them were earnest, thoughtful, truth-seeking men and women living in isolated localities, far from libraries and reading rooms, and without means to purchase the books they needed. Soon after founding his paper he formu lated a plan whereby these workers could obtain at a nominal cost a library that should cover the various phases of Spiritual Philosophy. This plan was faithfully carried out. With The Progressive Thinker he sent out each year a new volume of the series. Seventeen of these already have appeared. The present number con sists of papers from his own pen. Such of these as have appeared in The Progressive Thinker he thought worthy of presentation in a more permanent form. The book was well under way at the time of his transition. To compile and arrange in so far as possible as he would have done has been a labor of love as well as a duty which I feel that I owe to those who have for so many years read with interest the product of his fertile brain. 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.
