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... Science than with Religion . In fact , just as the performances of Eastern Magi took the strong- est hold of the Roman mind , when its faith in its old religious beliefs was shaken to its foundations , so did Appendices , B , C. 1 the ...
... Science than with Religion . In fact , just as the performances of Eastern Magi took the strong- est hold of the Roman mind , when its faith in its old religious beliefs was shaken to its foundations , so did Appendices , B , C. 1 the ...
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... science that they entertain ; but that experience proves that a prepossession in favour of some occult ' agency is almost sure to lead the investigator to the too ready acceptance of evidence of its operation . I would be among the last ...
... science that they entertain ; but that experience proves that a prepossession in favour of some occult ' agency is almost sure to lead the investigator to the too ready acceptance of evidence of its operation . I would be among the last ...
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... science which deal with such agencies are competent to carry out . The assumption of a new agency , and the interpretation of phenomena in accordance with it , is a method which has proved so de- ceptive as to be now universally ...
... science which deal with such agencies are competent to carry out . The assumption of a new agency , and the interpretation of phenomena in accordance with it , is a method which has proved so de- ceptive as to be now universally ...
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... science ; -namely , that in individuals of that excitable nervous temperament which is known as ' hysterical ' ( a temperament by no means confined to women , but rare in healthy and vigorous men ) , the expectation of a certain result ...
... science ; -namely , that in individuals of that excitable nervous temperament which is known as ' hysterical ' ( a temperament by no means confined to women , but rare in healthy and vigorous men ) , the expectation of a certain result ...
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... science , and was not invented for the occasion ; but the phenomena I have been describing to you are among its most ' pregnant instances . ' DIVINING ROD . The same principle furnishes what I believe 46 MESMERISM , ODYLISM ,
... science , and was not invented for the occasion ; but the phenomena I have been describing to you are among its most ' pregnant instances . ' DIVINING ROD . The same principle furnishes what I believe 46 MESMERISM , ODYLISM ,
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