Download or read book A Lecture on Popular Superstitions written by Bernard Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Lecture on Popular Superstitions Classic Reprint written by Bernard Whitman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-16 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Lecture on Popular Superstitions Youn attention is invited to some remarks on popular superstitions. I shall explain their nature; investigate their origin; describe their pernicious effects; and pro pose measures for their banishment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Superstition written by Robert Green Ingersoll and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Superstition written by Robert Green Ingersoll and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Superstition: A Lecture To believe in spite of evidence or without evidence? To account for one mystery by another. To believe that the world is governed by chance or caprice. To disregard the true relation between cause and effect. To put thought, intention and design back of nature. To believe that mind created and controls matter. To believe in force apart from substance, or in sub stance apart from force. To believe in miracles, spells and charms, in dreams and prophecies. To believe in the supernatural. E foundation of superstition is/ ignorance, the is faith and the dome is a vain hope. Superstition IS the child of ignorance and the mother of misery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Superstition written by Robert Green Ingersoll and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Letters on the Truths Contained in Popular Superstitions Classic Reprint written by Herbert Mayo and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Letters on the Truths Contained in Popular Superstitions Mrs R. Told my friend that, being at Cheltenham in 1806, she saw, for the first time, the divining rod used by Mrs Colonel Beaumont, who possessed the power of imparting motion to it in a very remarkable degree. Mrs R. Tried the experiment herself at that time, but without any success. She was, as it happened, very far from well. Afterwards, in the year 1815, being asked by a friend how the divining rod is held, and how it is to be used, on showing it she was surprised to see that the instrument now moved in her hands. Since then, whenever she had repeated the esperi ment, the power had always manifested itself, though with varying degrees of energy. Mrs R. Then took my friend to a part of the shrub bery, where she knew, from former trials, the divining rod would move in her hands. It did so, to my friend's extreme astonishment; and even continued to move, when, availing himself of Mrs R.'s permission, my friend grasped her hands with sufficient firmness to prevent any muscular action of her wrists or fingers influencing the result. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Struggle Between Science and Superstition Classic Reprint written by Arthur M. Lewis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Struggle Between Science and Superstition This little book is the seventh volume to make its appearance as the result of the lecture courses delivered at the Garrick theater during the last nine years. Its theme is taken from the course of sixteen lectures on the same subject delivered in the season of 1914-15. I trust that this modest narrative will meet with as gen erous a reception as its half dozen predecessors. There is no lack of evidence that in this coun try in the coming years there will be a keen and bitter struggle between the representatives of superstition and the champions of social progress. This little book is intended to serve as a weapon in the hands of the latter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Superstition written by Robert G. Ingersoll and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonded Leather binding
Download or read book Superstitions about Animals Classic Reprint written by Frank Gibson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Superstitions About Animals MY sole object in writing this little book has been to do something towards arousing a more general interest in a subject which has at no time obtained the attention it deserves. Yet there is no subject which so fully repays the thoughtful student as that of Natural History. In bringing together some of the most common superstitions about animals, and dealing with them in a light and popular way, I trust my object will in some measure be attained. If by the publication of this unpretentious work only a little of the prevalent superstition is swept away, and further interest is created in the wonders. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Signs Omens and Superstitions Classic Reprint written by Astra Cielo and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Signs, Omens and Superstitions It is an interesting question as to how the many superstitious beliefs and practices had their begin ning. The origin of most of them is no doubt to be found in man's efforts to explain the phe momena of nature, and in an attempt to propitiate an angry deity and to invite a better fortune. From these sources come many of the absurd notions? Still in vogue among primitive people, which have been handed down in modified form to us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Superstition and Science written by Samuel Roffey Maitland and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Superstition and Science: An Essay Revelation some reject Miracles, and think those Who believe in them superstitious. Some are willing to admit past Miracles, but ridicule the superstition of those who believe the pos sibility of present or future Miracles. Many who profess to believe in Miracles more gene rally, and to think that what has happened may happen again, consider it necessary to do so under perpetual and earnest protests against being supposed to credit superstitious non sense about sorcery, and witchcraft, and ghosts. Many who acknowledge that there are good and evil Spirits in existence, hold it to be weak and superstitious to suppose that their agency is in any way employed in the providential government of the world, and to Speak of that agency as if it were as much a reality as the acting of men among themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Studies of Contemporary Superstition Classic Reprint written by W. H. Mallock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Studies of Contemporary Superstition Throughout the present volume, except in the last two Essays, no attempt is made to discredit or even to criticise the destructive Operations of Science. For argument's sake their utmost results are accepted, and all that is done is this. The same method and principles by which men are destroying their old beliefs are applied to the new beliefs by which it is attempted to replace them; and the new are shown in their main features to be even less scien tific than the old - to be vaguer, more inaccurate, more completely at war with all objective evidence, and, because their relationship to such evidence is no doubt nearer and more direct, to be not only unscientific but ridiculous. They are shown to be not superstitions only, but abject superstitions - the hopeless and help less work of men who, as intellectual architects, parody every fault which they condemn as intellectual critics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Natural History of Superstition Classic Reprint written by John Trenchard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Natural History of Superstition Let us however {tick clofe to Truth. I intend neither to be feduced nor to dazzle my own Eyes by Arguments lefs folid than fpecious. Be'alts in general fpeak little. There are even fome of lo filent a Difpofition, that they won't drop four Words a Day. Such are among thofe we know, Afi'es, Horfes, Oxen, Sheep, and the major Part of the Q1adrupeds. The Reafon 15 very plain. It is becaufe Nature has given thele Animals only a Food fo very flight and eafy to be digefted, that they are incefi'antly obliged to renew it, in order to prevent Hunger, and this takes up mol'c of their Leifure. But in return you mul't own, that there are Animals which fpeak without the leal't Intermifiion. Such are among others the Birds. (and here I beg of you to obferve that it is the Females who fpeak the leali) As the Language of Birds 15, as I may fay, the belt articulated, and the molt fenfible to us, let us take it for an Example. From it you Iball be able to judge of the Language of the other Beafts, by putting be tween them the Differences which are eafily oh ferved 1n each Species. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Superstition written by Robert Green Ingersoll and published by . This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There were centuries of darkness when religion had control of Christendom. Superstition was almost universal. Not one in twenty thousand could read or write. During these centuries the people lived with their back to the sunrise, and pursued their way toward the dens of ignorance and faith. There was no progress, no invention, no discovery. On every hand cruelty and worship, persecution and prayer. The priests were the enemies of thought, of investigation.
Download or read book The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions Classic Reprint written by Carveth Read and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-26 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions The volume now published explains in its first part an hypothesis that the human race has descended from some ape-like stock by a series of changes which began and, until recently, were maintained by the practice of hunting in pack for animal food, instead of being content with the fruits and other nutritious products of the tropical forest. The hypothesis occurred to me many years ago, and was first published (in brief) in The Metaphysics of Nature(1805), Chap. XIII., and again in Natural and Social Morals(1909); but all it implied did not become clear until, in lecturing on Comparative Psychology, there was forced upon me the necessity of effecting an intelligible transition from the animal to the human mind, and of not being satisfied to say year after year that hands and brains were plainly so useful that they must have been developed by Natural Selection. Then one day the requisite ideas came to light; and an outline of the hypothesis was read at the Meeting of the British Association (Section H)at Birmingham in 1913, and printed in Man, November 1914. The Council of the Anthropological Institute has kindly consented to my using the substance of that article in the first chapter here following. The article in Man dealt chiefly with the physical changes which our race has undergone. The correlative mental changes were explained in the British Journal of Psychology in an article which supplies the basis of the second chapter of this book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Superstition in All Ages written by Jean Meslier and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Superstition in All Ages: A Dying Confession By translating into both the English and German languages Le Bon Sens, containing the Last Will and Testament of the French curate Jean Meslier, Miss Anna Knoop has performed a most useful and meritorious task, and in issuing a new 1 edition of this work, it is but justice to her memory to state that her translation has received the endorsement of our most competent critics. In a letter dated Newburyport, Mass., Sep.23, 1878, Mr. James Parton, the celebrated author, commends Miss Knoop for translating Mesliers book so well, and says that: This work of the honest pastor is the most curious and the most powerful thing of the kind which the last century produced Paine andVoltaire had reserves, but Jean Meslier had none. He keeps nothing back; and yet, after all, the wonder is not that there should have been one priest who left that testimony at 11 his death, but that all priests do not. True, there is a great deal more to be said about religion, which I believe to be an eternal necessity of human nature, but no man has uttered the negative side of the matter with so much candor and completeness as Jean Meslier. The value of the testimony of a catholic priest, who in his last moments recanted the errors of his faith and asked Gods pardon for having taught the catholic religion, was fully appreciated by Voltaire, who highly commended this grand work of Meslier. He voluntarily made every effort to Miss Knoop died Jan.11, 1889. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
