This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ... THE TABLE OF EXPLANATION. Having accompanied me thus far on the path of psychologic investigation, the reader will not, I think, deprive me of his companionship at this junction of the subject. The Table of explanation is about to be spread. Many descriptions of food, with their wonderful and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ... THE TABLE OF EXPLANATION. Having accompanied me thus far on the path of psychologic investigation, the reader will not, I think, deprive me of his companionship at this junction of the subject. The Table of explanation is about to be spread. Many descriptions of food, with their wonderful and mysterious condiments, will be placed on the festive board. Upon this table shall in due order be arranged before all the people "a feast of fat things," of which the brotherhood of man is invited to partake, "a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined." Every individual will find a flavor suited to his taste, and every one that 'hungers and thirsts' for more light on the topic under discussion, will, I venture to promise, find something which shall delight and nourish him. Let us, therefore, sit down like brethren to the Table, and partake only of those things to which our constitutions most distinctly incline. There are at present peculiar existing circumstances in the condition of the religious world, which make it almost imperative that a classification of the alledged spiritual phenomena should be attempted. There is an unaccountable repugnance to the supermundane theory of the manifestations. The poet opposes it upon poetical grounds: that the spiritual occurrences are too offensive to the long-cherished pictures of the imagination. The religious man--the receiver of popular theology--is opposed to the spiritual theory, because the phenomena are calculated to render familiar and common-place those sacred necrologic mysteries which have been so long supposed to be known only to the Supreme Being. The scientific man is too fearful of his reputation either to venture an acceptance, or a positive...
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