Essay on Superstition: Being an Inquiry Into the Effects of Physical Influence on the Mind, in the Production of Dreams, Visions, Ghosts, and Other Supernatural Appearances (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The idea thus suggested to the Author was acted upon, and from this arose a seriesof communications to the Christian Observer, during the course Of the past year. These Essays are now collected into one volume, and are presented to the Public, with various cor rections, and additional illustrations, in the hope that they may prove acceptable to a larger class of readers; and that they may be useful in undermining the wall of prejudice, which has been just alluded to: their Author most sincerely and'fervently prays, that they may prove the means of widening the agency of real religion, by contracting the limits of the prejudices against its influence.

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