A treatise concerning enthusiasme, as it is an effect of nature: but is mistaken by many for either divine inspiration, or diabolical possession / By Meric Casaubon.

  • Méric Casaubon
Date:
1656
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Credit: A treatise concerning enthusiasme, as it is an effect of nature: but is mistaken by many for either divine inspiration, or diabolical possession / By Meric Casaubon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Chap. 2. of Enthufiafme. 29 here. Nevertheleffe, fortheir fakes that love and read Greek books, (which i in very deed, ifany, after / t/ lh the Sacred, are beft able to make a man wife & lear- ct ned; )I will produce a place of Plutarch to this pur- pote : not only becaufeit conteineth much in few words; butalfo becaufe in all editions of Plutarch which] have feen; asthat of H. Stephen in 6 vol.in 8°. which laccoun tthe beft;&that of Paris ,inGreek. and Latine,of later yeares; it is corruptly exhibited, and marveloufly both by the Freeh and Latinein- terpreters miftaken,who hardly make fenfe ofthofe which they have, and leave out part of Plutarch’s words and fenfe. Plato (faith Plutarch) a and the Stoicks bring in (or affert) Di- Pantie : ‘i vination either as from Goa, immedi- «. x. ° ately, ordinarily called * enthufiaftick 5 adsvorasie. or from the Divinity (or divine mature) 42, sec. of the Soul,which Plato calleth® ecthu- it. Of Divination in generall, that is, asthe word) though not fo properly, is often taken, for any fore- telling of things future,) that there be many kinds i which are merely naturall and phyficall, fome ufu- ‘| all and ordinary,fome more rare, andremote from i vulgar knowledge, fome proceeding from. hid- den, though naturall caufes , and grounded upon experienceonly , others known (tothe learned at leaft) by their caufes, as well as by experience; they that have written De Divinatione, as Cicero anci- ently, Pescerws lately, (befides divers others,) will | afford
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