The mysteries of the head and the heart explained : including an improved system of phrenology, a new theory of the emotions, and an explanation of the mysteries of mesmerism, trance, mind-reading, and the spirit delusion (1875)
Grimes, J. Stanley (James Stanley), 1807-1903, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Chicago : W.B. Keen, Cooke & Co. · leaf 136
Paine —Fig. 44. Gibbon—Fig. 45. Every proposition, the truth of which we cannottest by the evidences of our own senses, if it is proba-ble, or even possible, is calculated to excite and gratifyCredenciveness. But its most natural stimulus is thetestimony of intelligent beings. I consider it as…
Phrenology · Mesmerism · Spiritualism
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