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... regard to the subject on which I am now to address you . For there has been a con- tinuity from the very earliest times of a belief , more or less general , in the existence of occult ' agencies capable of manifesting themselves in the ...
... regard to the subject on which I am now to address you . For there has been a con- tinuity from the very earliest times of a belief , more or less general , in the existence of occult ' agencies capable of manifesting themselves in the ...
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... these are subjects which any person of ordinary intelligence can investigate for himself . But the Chemist and the Physicist would most assuredly demur to any such assumption in regard to a chemical TABLE - TURNING , SPIRITUALISM . 5.
... these are subjects which any person of ordinary intelligence can investigate for himself . But the Chemist and the Physicist would most assuredly demur to any such assumption in regard to a chemical TABLE - TURNING , SPIRITUALISM . 5.
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... regard to matters in which the feel- ings are interested , of its liability to place undue con- fidence in persons having an interest in deceiving , and of the modes in which fallacies are best to be detected and frauds exposed , is an ...
... regard to matters in which the feel- ings are interested , of its liability to place undue con- fidence in persons having an interest in deceiving , and of the modes in which fallacies are best to be detected and frauds exposed , is an ...
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... regard as universal experience . This contention , however , seems to me to rest upon an entirely incorrect appreciation of the probative force of evidence ; for , as I shall endeavour to prove to you in my succeeding lecture , the only ...
... regard as universal experience . This contention , however , seems to me to rest upon an entirely incorrect appreciation of the probative force of evidence ; for , as I shall endeavour to prove to you in my succeeding lecture , the only ...
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... regard to what are called the higher phenomena ' of Mesmerism , I shall en- large in my succeeding lecture ; and at present I shall only remark that it was shown by careful comparison between the phenomena displayed by the same indi ...
... regard to what are called the higher phenomena ' of Mesmerism , I shall en- large in my succeeding lecture ; and at present I shall only remark that it was shown by careful comparison between the phenomena displayed by the same indi ...
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