Essay upon the influence of the imagination on the nervous system : contributing to a false hope in religion / by Grant Powers.

  • Powers, Grant, 1784-1841.
Date:
1828
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Credit: Essay upon the influence of the imagination on the nervous system : contributing to a false hope in religion / by Grant Powers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MKKMKOJB* The Author of the following Essay informs the rea- der, that this subject was assigned to him for investiga- tion and discussion about two years since, by the Orange Association, of which he is a member. He first wrote without the least intention to publish, and with much un- certainty in his own mind as to the light in which his brethren would view his effort to elucidate so intricate a subject. But that exhibition of facts and deductions was far more satisfactory to them than he had anticipated. And being requested to write again with a view to the publication of what might be written, he was induced to prosecute his researches and to lay the result before the public, if it should be thought best by competent judges. The Essay in its present form has been submitted to the inspection and consideration of about thirty literary gen- tlemen, many of whom are eminent for piety and talents, natural and acquired, and they have been unanimous in the opinion, that the Essay is calculated to promote the cause of true religion, and that the present state of things in the religious community requires its publication. From the confidence he has in the judgment of these gentlemen, rather than from a reliance on his own, he presents this Essay to the public with the hope, that it will be read with attention and candour, and that by the blessing of God, it may become instrumental of good to the interests of Zion. It will be readily perceived, that to develop a subject of this nature must be attended with difficulties, as the writer himself may be under the un- due influence of that power, which he is endeavouring to illustrate ; and that it is hardly possible to exhibit facts, in such a case, without awakening jealousy in some, that he is influenced by party feelings ; or that he is unfriend-