Mary Jane, or, spiritualism chemically explained, with spirit drawings / also essays by, and ideas (perhaps erroneous) of "a child at school."

  • [Guppy, Samuel].
Date:
1863
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Credit: Mary Jane, or, spiritualism chemically explained, with spirit drawings / also essays by, and ideas (perhaps erroneous) of "a child at school.". Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    on silver, as the sunshine does, and therefore, adopting the principle that similar results prove the agency of similar causes, we simplify the matter. So, for instance, all motion throughout the universe proceeds from the extrication of light, heat, and electricity from matter, with which it was combined. You travel in your carriage, or you go by rail—you are moved by precisely the same chemical agency, your horse is fed with hay and corn—vegetables—the boiler of the railway engine is fed with coals, which are only baked vegetables—the air disintegrates the heat (or elec- tricity) from the coals in the one case—and the air also acting on the horse's lungs, disintegrates the heat and electricity by which he pulls. The fact of the stars giving out light is evidence of their being compounded of the same materials by which we produce light. So that we may reasonably conclude, that we have a clear idea of the whole universe—namely, the solution of imponderable matter, from ponder- able matter; and its recombination with ponder- able matter. The earth is said to have been a burning mass at first—either a piece of the sun, or like a con- densed comet; and in partial proof of it, it is tolerably accurately calculated, that at 200 miles depth, it is all liquid and red hot. The results of its cooling down to the state it is in now, are the production of vegetable and animal life. The causes of the shapes, and suitability of purpose to end, are matters of rehgion; there-