Natural Causes and Supernatural SeemingsK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1886 - 368 pagini This comprehensive analysis of nineteenth-century spiritual experiments questions our long tradition of encounters with the supernatural, and why it appeared to have declined in influence in the writer's era. Maudsley (1835-1918), a medical psychologist and pioneer psychiatrist, sets out to bring such alleged spiritual phenomena under scientific investigation. Emphasising the natural defects and errors of human observation and reasoning, as well as the prolific activity of the imagination, this inquiry into the causes of belief in the supernatural suggests that much of it can be explained though hallucination, mania, and delusion. The book is divided into three parts: the first section concentrates on the causes of fallacies in the sound mind, while the second considers unsound mental action. The focus of part three is theopneusticism, or the attainment of supernatural knowledge by divine inspiration. |
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... of errors in seeing and thinking which were made then are made still , that the great majority of persons reason no better now than the great majority did then , CHAPTER I NATURAL DEFECTS AND ERRORS OF OBSERVATION AND REA- SONING.
... of errors in seeing and thinking which were made then are made still , that the great majority of persons reason no better now than the great majority did then , CHAPTER I NATURAL DEFECTS AND ERRORS OF OBSERVATION AND REA- SONING.
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... reason was latent in the fact before it was patent in the explanation . It was not by fictions of thought , but by realities of feeling and doing , that savages grew into powerful tribes or nations ; and the inquirer must look beneath ...
... reason was latent in the fact before it was patent in the explanation . It was not by fictions of thought , but by realities of feeling and doing , that savages grew into powerful tribes or nations ; and the inquirer must look beneath ...
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... reason may prove the association supposed invariable to be no more than accidental , or at any rate not to be invariable . All swans were believed to be white until a black swan was seen for the first time , " swan " and " whiteness ...
... reason may prove the association supposed invariable to be no more than accidental , or at any rate not to be invariable . All swans were believed to be white until a black swan was seen for the first time , " swan " and " whiteness ...
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... reason , no doubt , that comets and eclipses at one time produced an overwhelming terror , as they do still among some barbarous peoples , being thought to be ill - boding portents big with calamities . It may well be for the same reason ...
... reason , no doubt , that comets and eclipses at one time produced an overwhelming terror , as they do still among some barbarous peoples , being thought to be ill - boding portents big with calamities . It may well be for the same reason ...
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... reason of the aversion being that the funeral rites of the Lemuralia were celebrated in that month ; but still the superstition is not extinct , for marriages in May are thought by many to be unlucky now . How vivid and penetrating a ...
... reason of the aversion being that the funeral rites of the Lemuralia were celebrated in that month ; but still the superstition is not extinct , for marriages in May are thought by many to be unlucky now . How vivid and penetrating a ...
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