Volume 1

The occult sciences. The philosophy of magic, prodigies, and apparent miracles / From the French of Eusèbe Salverte, with notes illustrative, explanatory, and critical, by Anthony Todd Thomson.

  • Salverte, Eusèbe, 1771-1839.
Date:
1847
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Credit: The occult sciences. The philosophy of magic, prodigies, and apparent miracles / From the French of Eusèbe Salverte, with notes illustrative, explanatory, and critical, by Anthony Todd Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is more reasonable, then, to admit the truth of the tacts, and the accuracy of their explanation, than to condemn as impostures those récitals, of which modem discoveries hâve frequently demonstrated the truth. 2. It is an incontestable fact, that anciently science, and more especially that science which was confined to the temples, was enveloped in a thick veil to conceal it from the eyes of the vulgar ; and that it was employed to produce wonderful works fitted to subdue the obstinacy and credulity of the people, is a supposition so natural, that it will be difficult to oppose it, at least by any sound reasons. In the marvelous récitals which hâve been handed down to our times, some of this mystical learning may be discovered ; and in prosecuting the research, we endeavor to complété the history of science and of mankind.