Facts in Mesmerism, with reasons for a dispassionate inquiry into itLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1840 - 575 pages |
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... knowledge that , to the cause of truth , you have made every sacrifice except that of integrity . I must speak my opinion , though at the risk of being suspected of flattery . You , at least , shall not have the credit of countenancing ...
... knowledge that , to the cause of truth , you have made every sacrifice except that of integrity . I must speak my opinion , though at the risk of being suspected of flattery . You , at least , shall not have the credit of countenancing ...
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... knowledge ? Why are we to be trammelled with foregone conclusions ? Yet upon these very restrictions , the opponents of mesmerism insist ; thus taking away from men the means of investigating the agency in question , by forcing them to ...
... knowledge ? Why are we to be trammelled with foregone conclusions ? Yet upon these very restrictions , the opponents of mesmerism insist ; thus taking away from men the means of investigating the agency in question , by forcing them to ...
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... knowledge . It would make us rest satisfied with the apparent and the superficial , when we should be striving after the real and the profound . It would make our own imperfect observation the measure of Nature's regularity . Are we ...
... knowledge . It would make us rest satisfied with the apparent and the superficial , when we should be striving after the real and the profound . It would make our own imperfect observation the measure of Nature's regularity . Are we ...
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... knowledge . It must not be likened to optics , or hydrostatics , in their actual development , but to those sciences in their dim and early condition ; when rude guesses were accepted as substitutes for truth , and when objects were ...
... knowledge . It must not be likened to optics , or hydrostatics , in their actual development , but to those sciences in their dim and early condition ; when rude guesses were accepted as substitutes for truth , and when objects were ...
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... knowledge is a delusion , we , by parity of reasoning , must deny the existence of ourselves , and , conse- quently , of all external things : for the soul is an un- solved problem , and man is the great anomaly of creation . Yet thus ...
... knowledge is a delusion , we , by parity of reasoning , must deny the existence of ourselves , and , conse- quently , of all external things : for the soul is an un- solved problem , and man is the great anomaly of creation . Yet thus ...
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Page 363 - Is lightened ; that serene and blessed mood In which the affections gently lead us on, Until the breath of this corporeal frame, And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul : While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
Page 516 - Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? Before the sun, Before the Heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 516 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of heaven first-born, Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate.
Page 450 - I think evident, that we find in ourselves a power to begin or forbear, continue or end several actions of our minds, and motions of our bodies, barely by a thought or preference of the mind ordering, or, as it were, commanding the doing or not doing such or such a particular action.
Page 36 - With what to sight or smell was sweet ! from thee How shall I part, and whither wander down Into a lower world ; to this obscure And wild ? how shall we breathe in other air Less pure, accustomed to immortal fruits ? Whom thus the Angel interrupted mild.
Page 450 - For when the ball obeys the stroke of a billiard-stick, it is not any action of the ball, but bare passion : also when by impulse it sets another ball in motion that lay in its way, it only communicates the motion it had received from another, and loses in itself so much as the other received...
Page 324 - ... the lower part of his waistcoat. To remove it, therefore, became expedient in my eyes ; and in an evil moment it was removed with a knife. Great was my anxiety to know the success of my measure, and it succeeded too well.
Page 450 - Of Thinking, Body affords us no Idea at all, it is only from Reflection that we have that: 2. Neither have we from Body any Idea of the beginning of Motion. A Body at rest affords us no Idea of any active Power to move; and when it is set in motion it self, that Motion is rather a Passion, than an Action in it.
Page 37 - O, it is monstrous! monstrous! Methought, the billows spoke, and told me of it; The winds did sing it to me; and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc'd The name of Prosper; it did bass my trespass. Therefore my son i" the ooze is bedded ; and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded, And with him there lie mudded.
Page 409 - Is not vision performed chiefly by the vibrations of this medium., excited in the bottom of the eye by the rays of light, and propagated through the solid, pellucid, and uniform capillamenta of the nerves into the place of sensation?