Author: James Stanley Grimes
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Category : Hypnotism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
"Grimes was known for his novel three-part classification of regions of the brain: the Intellectuals, Socials, and Ideals; he also here attacks aspects of clairvoyance and supposed communion with spirits while 'under Etheropathic influence.'"-Antiquarian bookseller's description, 2016.
Etherology, Or, The Philosophy of Mesmerism and Phrenology
Author: James Stanley Grimes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hypnotism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
"Grimes was known for his novel three-part classification of regions of the brain: the Intellectuals, Socials, and Ideals; he also here attacks aspects of clairvoyance and supposed communion with spirits while 'under Etheropathic influence.'"-Antiquarian bookseller's description, 2016.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hypnotism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
"Grimes was known for his novel three-part classification of regions of the brain: the Intellectuals, Socials, and Ideals; he also here attacks aspects of clairvoyance and supposed communion with spirits while 'under Etheropathic influence.'"-Antiquarian bookseller's description, 2016.
Etherology
Author: James Stanley Grimes
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Category : Consciousness
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Consciousness
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Etherology, and the Phreno-philosophy of Mesmerism and Magic Eloquence
Author: James Stanley Grimes
Publisher:
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Category : Hypnotism
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hypnotism
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Etherology and the Phreno-philosophy
Author: James Stanley Grimes
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Credulity
Author: Emily Ogden
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022653247X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
From the 1830s to the Civil War, Americans could be found putting each other into trances for fun and profit in parlors, on stage, and in medical consulting rooms. They were performing mesmerism. Surprisingly central to literature and culture of the period, mesmerism embraced a variety of phenomena, including mind control, spirit travel, and clairvoyance. Although it had been debunked by Benjamin Franklin in late eighteenth-century France, the practice nonetheless enjoyed a decades-long resurgence in the United States. Emily Ogden here offers the first comprehensive account of those boom years. Credulity tells the fascinating story of mesmerism’s spread from the plantations of the French Antilles to the textile factory cities of 1830s New England. As it proliferated along the Eastern seaboard, this occult movement attracted attention from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s circle and ignited the nineteenth-century equivalent of flame wars in the major newspapers. But mesmerism was not simply the last gasp of magic in modern times. Far from being magicians themselves, mesmerists claimed to provide the first rational means of manipulating the credulous human tendencies that had underwritten past superstitions. Now, rather than propping up the powers of oracles and false gods, these tendencies served modern ends such as labor supervision, education, and mediated communication. Neither an atavistic throwback nor a radical alternative, mesmerism was part and parcel of the modern. Credulity offers us a new way of understanding the place of enchantment in secularizing America.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022653247X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
From the 1830s to the Civil War, Americans could be found putting each other into trances for fun and profit in parlors, on stage, and in medical consulting rooms. They were performing mesmerism. Surprisingly central to literature and culture of the period, mesmerism embraced a variety of phenomena, including mind control, spirit travel, and clairvoyance. Although it had been debunked by Benjamin Franklin in late eighteenth-century France, the practice nonetheless enjoyed a decades-long resurgence in the United States. Emily Ogden here offers the first comprehensive account of those boom years. Credulity tells the fascinating story of mesmerism’s spread from the plantations of the French Antilles to the textile factory cities of 1830s New England. As it proliferated along the Eastern seaboard, this occult movement attracted attention from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s circle and ignited the nineteenth-century equivalent of flame wars in the major newspapers. But mesmerism was not simply the last gasp of magic in modern times. Far from being magicians themselves, mesmerists claimed to provide the first rational means of manipulating the credulous human tendencies that had underwritten past superstitions. Now, rather than propping up the powers of oracles and false gods, these tendencies served modern ends such as labor supervision, education, and mediated communication. Neither an atavistic throwback nor a radical alternative, mesmerism was part and parcel of the modern. Credulity offers us a new way of understanding the place of enchantment in secularizing America.
Dictionary of Early American Philosophers
Author: John R. Shook
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1843711826
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 1249
Book Description
The Dictionary of Early American Philosophers, which contains over 400 entries by nearly 300 authors, provides an account of philosophical thought in the United States and Canada between 1600 and 1860. The label of "philosopher" has been broadly applied in this Dictionary to intellectuals who have made philosophical contributions regardless of academic career or professional title. Most figures were not academic philosophers, as few such positions existed then, but they did work on philosophical issues and explored philosophical questions involved in such fields as pedagogy, rhetoric, the arts, history, politics, economics, sociology, psychology, medicine, anthropology, religion, metaphysics, and the natural sciences. Each entry begins with biographical and career information, and continues with a discussion of the subject's writings, teaching, and thought. A cross-referencing system refers the reader to other entries. The concluding bibliography lists significant publications by the subject, posthumous editions and collected works, and further reading about the subject.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1843711826
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 1249
Book Description
The Dictionary of Early American Philosophers, which contains over 400 entries by nearly 300 authors, provides an account of philosophical thought in the United States and Canada between 1600 and 1860. The label of "philosopher" has been broadly applied in this Dictionary to intellectuals who have made philosophical contributions regardless of academic career or professional title. Most figures were not academic philosophers, as few such positions existed then, but they did work on philosophical issues and explored philosophical questions involved in such fields as pedagogy, rhetoric, the arts, history, politics, economics, sociology, psychology, medicine, anthropology, religion, metaphysics, and the natural sciences. Each entry begins with biographical and career information, and continues with a discussion of the subject's writings, teaching, and thought. A cross-referencing system refers the reader to other entries. The concluding bibliography lists significant publications by the subject, posthumous editions and collected works, and further reading about the subject.
Fisher's National Magazine and Industrial Record
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Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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The Education of Jane Addams
Author: Victoria Bissell Brown
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812237474
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
"Excellent. . . . The Education of Jane Addams provides a detailed, wonderfully complex analysis of Addams's ideas, life, and work."--Journal of American History
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812237474
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
"Excellent. . . . The Education of Jane Addams provides a detailed, wonderfully complex analysis of Addams's ideas, life, and work."--Journal of American History
The Bibliography of Progressive Literature
Author: New Epoch Publishing Company
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Category : New Thought
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Category : New Thought
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Phreno-geology
Author: James Stanley Grimes
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Category : Phrenology
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Phrenology
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description