Fact and Fable in PsychologyHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1900 - 375 ページ |
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absent treatment animal magnetism appearance argument by analogy attention attitude automatograph baquet becomes belief blind body Braid centre clairvoyance Clodd color condition conjuring cure deception direction disease doctrine dream-vision dreams effects error evidence experiences explanation eyes fact factor fancy favor hand Helen Keller human hypnotism hypothesis illustrations important impressed inference influence interest interpretation investigation involuntary knowledge Laura Bridgman less logical manifestations marvels medium ment mental merism Mesmer mesmerist methods metronome mind modern movements mysterious mystic nature notions object observation occult patient performances persons phenomena phrenology plate practical prepossession present problems Psychical Research psychological Puységur question readily recognized record regarded resemblance retina Salpêtrière scientific séance seems sensations sense Seybert Commission sight significance sitters slates somnambulism spirit spiritualistic Subject facing suggestion superstition telegraphy telepathy tendency Theosophy things thought tion trick true truth uncon unconscious
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39 ページ - Our reason is quite satisfied, in nine hundred and ninety-nine cases out of every thousand of us, if it can find a few arguments that will do to recite in case our credulity is criticised by some one else. Our faith is faith in some one else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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206 ページ - I now stated that I considered the experiments fully proved my theory; and expressed my entire conviction that the phenomena of mesmerism were to be accounted for on the principle of a derangement of the state of the cerebro-spinal centres, and of the circulatory, and respiratory, and muscular systems...
50 ページ - An examination of the nature and extent of any influence which may be exerted by one mind upon another, apart from any generally recognized mode of perception.
32 ページ - Until the advancing age admits the efficacy and supremacy of Mind, it is better to leave the adjustment of broken bones and dislocations to the fingers of a surgeon, while you confine yourself chiefly to mental reconstruction, and the prevention of inflammation or protracted confinement.
207 ページ - That the whole depended on the physical and psychical condition of the patient, arising from the causes referred to, and not at all on the volition, or passes of the operator, throwing out a magnetic fluid, or exciting into activity some mystical universal fluid or medium.
273 ページ - So wild and capricious is the human mind,'" observes the elegant letter-writer. But indeed, as Mr. Tylor justly remarks, " the thought was neither wild nor capricious; it was simply such an argument from analogy as the educated world has at length painfully learned to be worthless, but which, it is not too much to declare, would to this day carry considerable weight to the minds of four fifths of the human race.
246 ページ - the devil teacheth how to make pictures of wax or clay, that, by roasting thereof, the persons that they bear the name of may be continually melted, or dried away by continual sickness.