Natural Causes and Supernatural Seemings

Natural Causes and Supernatural Seemings

Author: Henry Maudsley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-05-19

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1108072704

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First published in 1886, this largely sceptical account of Victorian spiritualist interests attempts to find natural explanations for supernatural occurrences.


Natural Causes and Supernatural Seemings

Natural Causes and Supernatural Seemings

Author: Henry Maudsley

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Published: 1886

Total Pages: 426

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This comprehensive analysis of nineteenth-century spiritual experiments questions our long tradition of encounters with the supernatural, and why it appeared to have declined in influence in the writer's era. Maudsley (1835-1918), a medical psychologist and pioneer psychiatrist, sets out to bring such alleged spiritual phenomena under scientific investigation. Emphasising the natural defects and errors of human observation and reasoning, as well as the prolific activity of the imagination, this inquiry into the causes of belief in the supernatural suggests that much of it can be explained though hallucination, mania, and delusion. The book is divided into three parts: the first section concentrates on the causes of fallacies in the sound mind, while the second considers unsound mental action. The focus of part three is theopneusticism, or the attainment of supernatural knowledge by divine inspiration.


Natural Causes And Supernatural Seemings, By Henry Maudsley

Natural Causes And Supernatural Seemings, By Henry Maudsley

Author: Henry Maudsley

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2018-02-20

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 9781378290439

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.


Natural Causes and Supernatural Seemings, by Henry Maudsley

Natural Causes and Supernatural Seemings, by Henry Maudsley

Author: Henry Maudsley

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2015-09-01

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 9781340951924

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.


Natural Causes and Supernatural Seemings

Natural Causes and Supernatural Seemings

Author: Henry Maudsley

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-02

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 9781330253854

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Excerpt from Natural Causes and Supernatural Seemings Natural Causes and Supernatural Seemings was written by Henry Maudsley in 1886. This is a 420 page book, containing 105375 words. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Natural Causes and Supernatural Seemings (Classic Reprint)

Natural Causes and Supernatural Seemings (Classic Reprint)

Author: Henry Maudsley

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-22

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9780484467605

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Excerpt from Natural Causes and Supernatural Seemings It will not be out of place to premise summarily two elementary truths. The grounds of which are found set forth at length in the general argument. Obvious as they might appear, it is strange to see how commonly they are ignored. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Romanticism, Medicine and the Natural Supernatural

Romanticism, Medicine and the Natural Supernatural

Author: Gavin Budge

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-10-17

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1137284315

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This fascinating interdisciplinary study examines the relationship between literary interest in visionary kinds of experience and medical ideas about hallucination and the nerves in the first half of the nineteenth century, focusing on canonical Romantic authors, the work of women writers influenced by Romanticism, and visual culture.


The Problem of Disenchantment

The Problem of Disenchantment

Author: Egil Asprem

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2018-05-31

Total Pages: 662

ISBN-13: 1438469942

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Max Weber famously characterized the ongoing process of intellectualization and rationalization that separates the natural world from the divine (by excluding magic and value from the realm of science, and reason and fact from the realm of religion) as the "disenchantment of the world." Egil Asprem argues for a conceptual shift in how we view this key narrative of modernity. Instead of a sociohistorical process of disenchantment that produces increasingly rational minds, Asprem maintains that the continued presence of "magic" and "enchantment" in people's everyday experience of the world created an intellectual problem for those few who were socialized to believe that nature should contain no such incalculable mysteries. Drawing on a wide range of early twentieth-century primary sources from theoretical physics, occultism, embryology, radioactivity, psychical research, and other fields, Asprem casts the intellectual life of high modernity as a synchronic struggle across conspicuously different fields that shared surprisingly similar intellectual problems about value, meaning, and the limits of knowledge.