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THE

PHILOSOPHY

OF

MYSTERY.

BY

WALTER COOPER DENDY,

FELLOW AND HONORARY LIBRARIAN OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF
LONDON; SENIOR SURGEON TO THE ROYAL INFIRMARY
FOR CHILDREN, &c., &c.

NEW-YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,

82 CLIFF STREET.

1845.

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“We so intreateth this serious and terrible matter of Spírites, that now and then insertyng some strange stories of counterfeyts, doth both very lyvely display their falsehood, and also not a little recreate his reader: and yet in the ende he so aptly concludeth to the purpose, that his hystories seeme not idle tales, or impertinent vagaries, but very truethes, naturally falling under the compasse of his matter."

CONTENTS.

Psychology of the Greeks and of the Moderns.-Essence of Phrenology.-
Lord Brougham.-Priestley.- Paley.-Johnson.- Modes of Sepulture.
-Paradise.-Atheism.- Deity.-Hindoo Mythology.-Senile Intellect

179-194

Ancient Prophetic Dreams.-Stories of modern Prophecies in Dreaming

215-223

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