Progress of Animal Magnetism in New England

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART II. EXPERIMENTS, CERTIFICATES, REPORTS, ETC., TO SERVE FOR THE HISTORY OF ANIMAL MAGNETISM IN THE UNITED STATES. SECTION I. General Remarks. A Pact which places the reality of Animal Magnetism beyond doubt in the mind of every sensible and moral man, is that, within eighteen months past, upwards of...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART II. EXPERIMENTS, CERTIFICATES, REPORTS, ETC., TO SERVE FOR THE HISTORY OF ANIMAL MAGNETISM IN THE UNITED STATES. SECTION I. General Remarks. A Pact which places the reality of Animal Magnetism beyond doubt in the mind of every sensible and moral man, is that, within eighteen months past, upwards of one hundred cases of somnambulism have been produced in this part of the country; and although most of those somnambulists were completely ignorant of the various phenomena generally exhibited during the magnetic state, yet the effects and faculties presented by them, coincide entirely with what has been observed in Europe and in the French West Indies. I am aware that some vulgar-minded and ungenerous skeptics affirm, that there can be no such thing as magnetic somnambulism, and that all the cases mentioned in New England were, or still are, feigned. On what evidence do those unfeeling opposers base their bold assertions ? On the ground, I repeat, that the alleged phenomena are inexplicable, impossible, contrary to the laws of nature,