The soul of things, or, psychometric researches and discoveries / by William and Elizabeth M. F. Denton.

  • William Denton
Date:
1871
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Credit: The soul of things, or, psychometric researches and discoveries / by William and Elizabeth M. F. Denton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    PREFACE. There is a wide realm lying between the known physical and the comparatively unknown spiritual, — a realm as yet almost en- tirely unexplored. Mesmeric experimenters have been pioneers in exploring one portion of it, Reichenbach and Buchanan in other portions, while in this volume, we record our experience in travel- ling over a part of this Httle known, but exceedingly interesting and important region. Facts are constantly presenting themselves, that no philosophy explains; and as the most obvious phenomena are the first to be brought within the domain of science, because their explanation lies nearer the surface, so what remain necessarily lie deeper, are the results of the operation of subtler forces, and their existence is more likely in consequence to be denied by those whose belief is bounded by what their senses supply, or what can be inferred therefrom. But he who knows most of Nature, he who is most reverently her lover, will be least likely to set up his knowledge as a boundary beyond which fact and philosophy may never advance. The higher we rise, the wider the circle of the unknown stretches around us; while Destiny with uplifted finger beckons us on. Ill
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