Publisher's Synopsis
A man with a high spirit and a respectable character, known by a philosophical book that is not without originality: the Moral System, Mr. Charles Lambert, who died recently, founded a prize, accepted by the Institute, on this subject: the future of spiritualism. If we were still in the age of competitions, we would have liked to be among the competitors. Indeed, we have often wondered about this formidable problem: we have wondered what, in modern society divided by so many currents of ideas, may still be the hopes of spiritualist ideas. If one were to believe appearances, would it not rather contrary ideas that are more and more invasive and threatening? See, it will be said, science; in its progressive development, does it not give more and more reason to materialist doctrines? Do not the freest minds carry themselves on this side?
