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less without an obvious relation to ascertained law. Should the contrary and (as I think) more inductive principle be ever adopted, that facts rightly testified to are worthy of a hearing, with a view to the ascertaining of some law under which they may be classed, a liberal retrospect along the history of knowledge will probably show to us that even among what have been considered as the superstitions of mankind there are some valuable realities. Wherever there is a perseverance and uniformity of report on almost any subject, however heterodox it may have appeared, there may we look with some hopefulness that a principle or law will be found, if duly sought for. There is a whole class of alleged phenomena, of a mystically psychical character, mixing with the chronicles of false religions and of hagiology, in which it seems not unlikely that we might discover some golden grains. Perhaps, nay, probably, some mystic law, centering deep in our nature, and touching far-distant spheres of untried being,' runs through these undefined phenomena,-which, if it ever be ascertained, will throw not a little light upon the past beliefs and actions of mankind,—perhaps add to our assurance that there is an immaterial and immortal part within us, and a world of relation beyond that now pressing upon our senses."*

* Pamphlet cited, p. 24.

INDEX.

ABERCROMBIE, on unlimited skepticism, 64; on a singular dream, 193; ou
importance of the subject of dreaming, 209; narratives attested by,
141, 159, 180, 181, 184, 204.

Abrantès, Duchesse de, her voucher for Mademoiselle Clairon's story, 444.
Action of mind on matter, 66.

Actress, French, what she suffered, 436.

Addison, his opinion as to apparitions, 31.

Aerolites formerly disbelieved, 93.

Affections and thoughts, their apparent influence on the spiritual body, 358.
Ahrensburg, Cemetery of, 260.

Alibi proved under extraordinary circumstances, 326.

Analogy indicates character of our future life, 502.

Animal Magnetism, 22.

Animals, effect of spiritual agency upon, 217, 231, 400, 448, 450.

Antiquary, the, and the Cardinal, their objections answered, 367.

Apparition at the moment of death, 371, 374, 377, 383, 411.

Apparition at sea, 331; another, 333; its practical result, 337.
Apparition, habitual, of a living person, 348.

Apparition in India, 369.

Apparition in Ireland, 319.

Apparition of a stranger, 387.

Apparition of the living witnessed by forty-two persons at once, 351.

Apparitions of two living persons, 321.

Apparition of the living seen by mother and daughter, 327.

Apparition seen by two persons independently, 377, 378, 383, 401, 411, 418.

Apparition vouched for by senses of hearing and touch, 461.

Apparitions and aerolites, 362.

Apparitions, reality of, not a question to be settled by closet theorists 361.
Appearance, gradual, and disappearance of an apparition, 387.

Arago, on Somnambulism, 23.

Aristotle, his opinion on dreams, 138.

Arrears of teind, the, 165.

Ashburner, Dr., his narrative, 369.

Aspirations, the highest, are prophetic, 499.

Atheist, an, his theory as to an apparition, 371.

Automatic writing, spontaneous example of, 471.

Babbage, his calculating machine, illustration from, 77.
Bailly, his Report on Animal Magnetism, 23.

Baldarroch, the farm-house of, 255.

Bédollière, M. de la, how he obtained his wife, 146.

Beecher, Rev. Charles, inclines to Demonology, 39.

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Bell and Stephenson. Foreshadowing in dream, 202.
Berzelius, his last farewell to science, 495.

Bible, dreams in the, 208; Pneumatology of the, 511.

Bichât's division of the animal functions, 121.

Biological experiments, how far they affect the doctrine of hallucina-

tion, 310.

Bishop, a, interests himself on the subject of apparitions, 34.

Blackstone, on the supernatural, 30.

Böhme, Jacob, his mysticism, 21.

Braid, some of his experiments attested by Dr. Carpenter, 28.
Brain representing its action at a distance? 196.

Brodie, Sir B., on the human brain, 133.

Brother, the, his appearance to his sister, 373.

Butler, Bishop, his view of miracles, 90.

Byron, Lord, his opinion on apparitions, 31.

Cabanis saw bearings of political events in dream, 125.
Calmeil, Dr., his opinion of the Jansenist miracles, 87.
Calphurnia, her dream, 150.

Carpenter, Dr., on Animal Magnetism, 24.

Catholic Church, its doctrine of possession, 40.

Cerebral battery, how it may be charged, 135.

Chair, with lady on it, raised without contact, 112.

Chambers, Robert, his pamphlet on the posture of testimony in the scientific

world, Appendix, Note B., 517.

Character but slightly changed after death, 405, 479.

Character of man, how it is formed, 485.

Chemistry formerly regarded as unlawful, 46.

Children, the apparitions of Mr. and Mrs., 418.

Children of this world and children of light, 498.

Child's bones found, 396, 398.

Cideville parsonage, the disturbances there, 272.

Circulation of the blood held to be impossible forty-four years after its dis-
covery, 93.

Circumstances connecting an apparition with the external world, 390, 396,
416, 424.

Clairon, Mademoiselle Claire-Josèphe, her story, 436.

Clarke, Dr., his opinion of the Wesley disturbances, 237.

Clay, Alderman, his dream, and the custom thence resulting, 162.

Clergy, on them especially devolves duty of examination and exposure of
any spiritual delusion, 45.

Coincidence, remarkable, as to stains of blood, 409.

Coincident impressions of two cousins, 332.

Coleridge's cataleptic suggestion, 239.

Columbus at Barcelona, 60.

Condorcet made complicated calculations in dream, 125.

Consolation, unexpected, 461.

Contempt corrects not, 35; before inquiry, fatal, 316.

Credulousness of incredulity, 258.

Cuvier on Animal Magnetism, 68.

Dangers of the subject best averted by inquiry, 49.
Darwin's theory, as to suspension of volition, 129, 130.
Day of Judgment, varying ideas concerning, 483.
Dead body, the, and boat-cloak, 368.

Dead, the, entreating prayer and instruction, 398.

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Dead, the, whence can they return? 430, 479.

Death a herald, not a destroyer, 491; the agency whereby life changes its
phase, 505.

Death caused by a dream, 139.

Death destroys neither the life nor the identity of man, 480; is not the op-

posite of life, 505.

Debt of three-and-ten pence, 404.

De Foe's hypothesis, 29, 430, 479.
Demoniac Manifestations, 40.

Discrimination of modern science, 87.

Disturbances in the county of Wilts, England, in 1661, 215.

Disturbances in the Wesley family, in 1716, 224.

Disturbances in Upper Silesia, in 1806, 242.

Disturbances in Northern Wurtemberg, in 1825, 250.

Disturbances in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in 1838, 255.
Disturbances in the island of Oesel, in 1844, 260.
Disturbances in the north of France, in 1850, 272.
Disturbances in Western New York, in 1848, 284.

Disturbances in a cemetery, 260.

Disturbances running through four years, 259.
Disturbances often assume a character of levity, 211.
Disturbances, evidence of, summed up, 300.

Dog, the Newfoundland, 474.

Doom, is there a final, at death? 484.

Dream fulfilling itself, 145.

Dream involving a double coincidence, 158, 159.

Dream indicating a distant death, 154.

Dream, life saved by a, 151, 204.

Dream, one, the counterpart of another, 182.
Dreams, are all untrustworthy? 138, 209.
Dreams, can they embody requitals? 435.
Dreams may be induced by slight causes, 140.
Dreams may be intentionally suggested, 142.
Dreams, opinions of the ancients on, 137.
Dreams, synchronous, 434.

Duty of research, 45.

Dying mother, the, and her babe, 342.

Effects of rejecting the doctrine of Hades, 487.

Electricity, animal, discoveries in, 66.

Epidemical hallucinations, do they exist? 314.

Epidemics, mental, of Europe, 103.

Error of two phases, 83.

Evidence, suggestion as to rules of legal, 324.

Evidences of thought, intention, foresight, must be referred to a thinker, an
intender, a foreseer, 506.

Expectant attention not the origin of Spiritual phenomena, 347, 419, 427.

Faraday, 95; on Table-moving, 111; on Spiritual agency, 113; on Elec-
tricity, 133.

Felkesheim, Count de, his story, 392.

Field-mice, the two, 178.

Fish, eyeless, in Mammoth Cave, 41.

Fishing-party, the, 151.

Fourteenth of November, 411.

Fox family, powers of second-sight among their ancestors and relatives, 284.
Fox, Kate, 24, 288.

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"Ghost Club," at the University of Cambridge, England, 33, and Appen-

dix, Note A., 513.

Ghost-stories of the Radcliffe school, no proof of, 211.

Giant of the Brocken, 308.

Glanvil narrative, the, 214; his personal deposition, 218.

Gloucester, Bishop of, his story, 148.

Goethe's grandfather, his alleged gift of prophecy, 197.

Goffe, Mary, her dream, 187.

Golding, Mrs., and her maid, 241.

Gregory, Dr., aided professionally in dream, 126.

Grose, Mr., his flippant objections, 366.

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Guardianship, apparent examples of, 454, 455, 459, 461, 463, 469.

Guldenstubbé, Baron de, his history of the appearance and disappearance
of an apparition, 387.

Guldenstubbé, Mademoiselle de, her narrative of disturbances, 260; of an
habitual apparition of the living, 348.

Habitual apparition of a living person, 348.

Hades, 29, 402, 431, 486, 499.

Hades, doctrine of primitive Christianity regarding, 481.

Hades of the Greeks, 482.

Hall, Mr. S. C., his story, 463.

Hall, Mrs. S. C., her story, 447.

Hallucination, 108, 303; examples of, 306; was this? 330.

Hallucination not insanity, 307.

Hallucination, no examples of collective, 309, 313.

Hallucination and illusion, difference between, 308.

Hare, Dr., his error, 39.

Haunted houses, 100; ancient examples, 212.

Hauntings, disturbances so called, 210.

Heaven, usual conception of, does not satisfy the hearts of men, 493.

Hell, an inevitable, but not begirt with flames, 510.

Help amid the snow-drifts, 459.

Herschel, Sir John, on possible chemical combinations, 64.

Holland, Sir Henry, on the nervous and vascular systems, 134.

Home on the other side, 27, 504.

How a French editor obtained his wife, 146.

How a Livonian school-teacher lost her situation, 348.

How Senator Linn's life was saved, 455.

Howitt, William, on Spiritualism, 36; his dream, 170; his story, 373.

Howitt, Mary, her dream, 171.

Hume, his argument as to miracles, 71, on the Marvellous, 98.
Hydesville, disturbances in, 284.

Hypnotism, 128.

Ideal, voice of the, 26, 500.

Identity, question of, 489; how, and when lost, 490.

Illusion, difference between it and hallucination, 308.

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