"Magnetismus, quia passim viget, præter nomen, nil novi continet; LONDON: SAMUEL HIGHLEY, 32, FLEET STREET. PREFACE. IN issuing the following little Treatise, it seems reasonable to offer a few remarks as to the causes of my engaging in an inquiry into the subject of Vital Magnetism. First, then, I trust I have been led by a love, for its own sake, of truth, my polestar from earliest years. Secondly, I have found the subject connected with some scientific associations to which Alma Mater directed my mind as a student. Thirdly, I have learned that here is seated a power, which, the gift of a merciful God, is fraught with remarkable blessings to man. And, fourthly, I have considered, that, if Missionaries were to learn the method, and suitably exercise it, in subserviency to their exalted calling, they would gain thereby a great accession of influence, not for temporal good only, but for moral and spiritual purposes. |