Essay On Superstition Being An Inquiry Into the Effects of Physical Influence O
Essay On Superstition Being An Inquiry Into the Effects of Physical Influence O
W William Newnham
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No question, perhaps, of late years, has been met with more positive and obstinate opposition on the one hand, or with a greater degree of enthusiastic admiration on the other; unanimously rejected by the former, and revived with as full a belief in all its consequences by the latter. Yet it would seem impossible to deny the facts which are alleged, and equally impossible to account for them, except by granting them a physical origin. But the effects produced are similar to those for which a sp...iritual and supernatural agency has been asked; and if it be granted in the one in- stance, it cannot be withheld in the other. In the phenomena of animal magnetism, as they are capable of being produced by the concur- rence of the magnetizer and magnetized, there happens an opportunity of witnessing the operation ; and sine e this can be referred en- tirely to physical circumstances, there is no- thing unreasonable in claiming a similar organ for other analogous phenomena. It is then to be remarked, that the magnetic paroxysm is most easily produced upon a brain which is in an irritable and excited state ; that the concurrence of the two individuals (the 188 ESSAY ON SUPERSTITION.
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