An essay on human magnetism, or the infant magnetism enrobed in its true panoply / by Henry Foster Smith.

  • Smith, Henry Foster.
Date:
1844
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    PREFACE. i The subject of the following essay, I am well aware, is, in many places, one of the most unpopular that I could have chosen to advocate; and I presume, therefore, no one will doubt, that in thus appearing before the public in the capacity of an author, I have been prompted by an ardent solicitude to contribute to the promotion of human happiness. Those who have hitherto written upon human magnetism,have furnished us with interesting accounts of its wonderful develop- ments, and of the application of its power to useful purposes. But few of them, however, have seemed willing to hazard their opinions as to the agent con- cerned in the production of its phenomena: and even those few have either left the subject unsatisfactorily explained, or enveloped it in still greater mystery than before. From my own experiments and observations, I have been forced to reject all the theories which I have read upon the subject, and pursue, in many re- spects, an independent course, having No beaten path to tread, no practised course to steer. In this course one fact after another has developed itself, till all that was wonderful in. the science has be-