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 41
s a power whose care Teaches thy w\ay along that pathless coast,The desert and illimitable air.Lone wandering but not lost.—Bryant to a water-fowl. This may be definedto be the perception ofthe direction of objects.It is largely developedin the heads of all cel-ebrated navigators, trav-elers and… … Americus Vespucius— Fig. 10. His hero is represented as steering the vessel amongrocks and shoals, through a thousand dangers thatseem each moment to increase in magnitude; butwith a firm and decided voice, and a calm spirit, hegives each necessary order, as with a skillful hand heguides the noble…
Phrenology · Mesmerism · Spiritualism
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