Letters on mesmerism / By Harriet Martineau.

  • Harriet Martineau
Date:
1845
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Credit: Letters on mesmerism / By Harriet Martineau. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    25/96 page 13
    ~ November 12. LETTER. 1. MESMERIC EXPERIENCE, Ir is important to society to know whether Mesmer- ism is true. The revival of its pretensions from age to age makes the negative of this question appear so im- probable, and the affirmative involves anticipations so vast, that no testimony of a conscientious witness can be unworthy of attention. I am now capable of affording testimony ; and all personal considerations must give way before the social duty of imparting the facts of which I am in possession. Those who know Mesmerism to be true from their own experience are now a large number; many more, I believe, than is at all supposed by those who have not attended to the subject. Another considerable class consists of those who believe upon testimony: who find it impossible not to yield credit to the long array of cases in many books, and to the attestation of friends whose judgment and veracity they are in the habit of respecting. After these there remain a good many who amuse themselves with observing some of the effects of Mesmerism, calling them strange and unaccountable, and then going away and thinking no more about them; and lastly, the great majority who know nothing of the B
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