Spirit manifestations examined and explained : Judge Edmonds refuted; or, An exposition of the involuntary powers and instincts of the human mind / By John Bovee Dods.

  • Dods, John Bovee, 1795-1872.
Date:
[1854], [©1854]
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Credit: Spirit manifestations examined and explained : Judge Edmonds refuted; or, An exposition of the involuntary powers and instincts of the human mind / By John Bovee Dods. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    ground between believers and skeptics in the spirit-manifestations, and who was a rational believer—that is, a believer on natural princi- ples. And as I use considerable language of this character, it might be considered incorrect, when Mr. Rogers has published a work that occupies the middle ground between believers and skeptics. But as my Lectures were written and delivered before his book appeared, so this matter will be understood by all. I have no faith whatever in the odic force of R,eich- enbach, which Mr. Rogers seems to have adopted to explain the phenomena of the spirit- manifestations. For this the reader will find my reasons stated in the Appendix to these Lectures. I will now say, that I had abandoned the idea of publishing my views in connection with the spirit-manifestations, and had concluded to prepare a work devoted exclusively to the exposition of the instincts of man as connected with the involuntary powers of Ids mind, which, as a branch of mental philosophy, has been entirely overlooked. But as Judge Edmonds, of this city, has just published a work in