Mental magic : a rationale of thought reading, and its attendant phenomena and their application to the discovery of new medicines, obscure diseases, correct delineations of character, lost persons and property, mines and prings of water, and all hidden and secret things / by Thos. Welton.

  • Thomas Welton
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1884
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Credit: Mental magic : a rationale of thought reading, and its attendant phenomena and their application to the discovery of new medicines, obscure diseases, correct delineations of character, lost persons and property, mines and prings of water, and all hidden and secret things / by Thos. Welton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( -34) anything in heaven above or in the earth beneath, if it has a good and legitimate purpose to serve.— [Contributed.] THOUGHT-READING. See page 11. Few of my readers can fail to remember numerous instances in which, while in company with another, not merely like emotions, but even like ideas, have arisen in both minds, without any apparent cause for their coming. Thoughts that had been banished for years will often present themselves suddenly and without cognisable occasion, and it is found that the friend at your side was just then thinking the same thought. This mysterious Sympathy is shown on a large scale in the instance of panics. Something, or nothing, wakens a sense of fear in a few. That emotion is communicated to those about them, who also feel fear, although ignorant of the original cause of the terror. They are frightened by sympathy, simply because the emotion of fear is stirred in the minds about them. The emotion spreads with the rapidity of lightning to hundreds—to thousands. Nor is this all. The strength of the emotion grows with the number infected by it. The atmosphere seems charged with fear.