This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ...The belief in witchcraft affected society far more deeply than ever homoeopathy has done, or is ever at all likely to do. On the Continent, it found enthusiastic disciples among Popes and Kings, Princes and Priests; and, in fact, the populations2 of whole kingdoms ardently adopted it. In England there were sincere ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ...The belief in witchcraft affected society far more deeply than ever homoeopathy has done, or is ever at all likely to do. On the Continent, it found enthusiastic disciples among Popes and Kings, Princes and Priests; and, in fact, the populations2 of whole kingdoms ardently adopted it. In England there were sincere believers in it from that royal writer on demonology, King James, down to the most venerable judge upon the judicial bench, Sir Matthew Hale, and that most intelligent of English physicians, Sir Thomas Browne. "The highest ranks," says Dr Mackay, "shared and encouraged the delusion." As in most other analogous delusions, women were among its most enthusiastic votaries; and too often its victims. The wise King James offers as his royal explanation (whether correctly or not we may not disloyally inquire) why there were twenty women devoted to the practice of witchcraft for every one man, that " as that sexe is frailer than man is, so is it (the female sex) easier to be entrapped in these grosse snares." But the principal promoters of the belief in witchcraft, as in most other analogous delusions and quackeries, proved to be the clergy. Thus, in one of the last witch trials in Scotland (and which resulted in the burning of five poor women at Paisley, upon the false and foolish accusation of a child of eleven years of age), Law specially tells us that, among the persons chiefly to blame for this fearful judicial murder, were "certain ministers of too much forwardness and absurd credulity." The nature of the clerical education is perhaps the reason of this discreditable characteristic; but be the explanation what it may, it proves only too true still, that (like witchcraft, sorcery, etc., in olden times) mesmeris...
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