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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    LECTUEE VIII. The seven Lectures contained in the preceding pages were publicly delivered in various sections; what follows was not. I merely divide the subject-matter into Lectures to preserve a uniformity in the book. I append them as an act of justice to Judge Edmonds, of this city, and his associates, who have published a work of 505 pages in defense of the truthfulness of spirit-manifestations. I must confess that the work is written with a great deal of candor &id sincerity, and is decidedly the best that I have as yet perused upon this subject. The Introduction, the conjoint work of John W. Edmonds and George T. Dexter, contains 100 pages, and the Appendix, by Nathaniel P. Tallmadge, late U. S. Senator, and Governor of Wisconsin, contains 111 pages. The communications in the body of the work, occupying 294 pages, pur- porting to be made by the spirits of Bacon and Swedenborg, through the Doctor, who is a writing medium, are, with few exceptions, excellent, and can not be read but with pleasure, satisfaction, and profit by any candid and seriously-disposed mind. Yet