Volume 1

Sketches of the philosophy of apparitions; or an attempt to trace such illusions to their physical causes / By Samuel Hibbert.

  • Samuel Hibbert-Ware
Date:
1825
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Credit: Sketches of the philosophy of apparitions; or an attempt to trace such illusions to their physical causes / By Samuel Hibbert. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Page Powers, they often change the Quality of their Action, as from Pleasure to Pain, or from Pain to Pleasure, - - - 361 Cuap. XVI. When Causes act acutely upon Organs of Sensa- tion, and are unremittingly prolonged, they oc- casionally change the Quality of their Action ; as, for instance, from Pain to Pleasure. Ideas likewise partake of this Change of Excitement, 367 PART V. SLIGHT REMARKS ON THE MODIFICATIONS WHICH THE IN- TELLECTUAL FACULTY OFTEN UNDERGOES DURING IN- TENSE EXCITEMENTS OF THE MIND, - - 377 PART VI. SUMMARY OF THE COMPARATIVE DEGREES OF FAINTNESS, VIVIDNESS, OR INTENSITY SUBSISTING BETWEEN SENSA-~ TIONS AND IDEAS, DURING THEIR VARIOUS EXCITEMENTS AND DEPRESSIONS, Introduction, - - - = - 391 Cuap. I. The various Excitements and Depressions connect- ed with the Sleeping and Dreaming States, 393 II. The Order of Phenomena observable in extreme Mental Excitements, when Sensations and Ideas are conjointly rendered more vivid, - 409 III. The Images of Spectral Impressions differ from those of Dreams in being much more vivid, 429 NOTES, - - - - - 44] DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER. ForMULA (contained in a Tabular View) of the various compa- rative Degrees of Faintness, Vividness, or Intensity, supposed to subsist between Sensations and Ideas, when conjointly excited or depressed,—to face page 392. Wood Cut of Grotesque Carvings over the Door of the Cheetham Library, Manchester,——illustrative of the Demonology of the Middle Ages,—to face page 172. .