Essay upon the influence of the imagination on the nervous system : contributing to a false hope in religion / by Grant Powers.

  • Grant Powers
Date:
1828
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Credit: Essay upon the influence of the imagination on the nervous system : contributing to a false hope in religion / by Grant Powers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. ]y to that religion which warms the heart, animates the affections, and assimilates the life to the obedience of Christ. But possessing a good degree of conscious recti- tude in these respects, which is more to him than the smiles or frowns of his fellow men, he is enabled to sub- mit to any imputations, which he may incur by this pub- lication, being sustained by the hope, that it will be own- ed and blessed by the Great Head of the church. If it should appear by this exhibition of facts that any one de- nomination of christians is more the subject of his re- marks than another, it is because that he there finds more to illustrate his principle than in another ; and he trusts that the candid and enlightened reader will per- ' <*ive, that he has adduced no more facts in any case than were necessary to do justice to the subject, which he has endeavoured to illustrate. The writer has in no instance adduced any testimony, which he did not believe to be valid, nor has he intentionally given a false colouring to any thing exhibited in this Essay; and if it should hereafter appear that he has misapprehended any facts, and made deductions from them prejudicial to the truth or to the best interests of individuals, or any body ot christians, he will cheerfully correct the mistake as pub- licly as he has given currency to the errour. \V ith these views and sentiments, he commits this little work to the public praying that it may effect nothing against tU truth but much/or the truth, and by a divine blessing, become a tributary to that river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God. The Author.