Essay on Superstition : Being an Inquiry into the Effects of Physical Influence on the Mind in the Production of Dreams, Visions, Ghosts, and Other Su (Paperback)

Preface; 1. Introductory remarks; 2. Division of the subject; 3. Materiality of the brain, and its subjection to the agency of physical causes; 4. Particular sympathies of the brain; 5. Phenomena of disordered brainular function, and its influence on the manifestations of mind; 6. The same subject continued; 7. Phenomena of sleep, and its morbid states; 8. The same subjects continued; 9. The same subject continued; 10. The same subject continued; 11. On presentiments; 12. Agency of evil spirits; 13. Critical inquiry into the views of a recent writer in The Record, on the subject of apparitions; 14. Influence of nitrous-oxyde gas on the brain; 15. Influence of brainular disease on the function of volition; 16. The same subject continued; 17. Summary review of the preceding argument; 18. The same subject continued; 19. The same subject continued; 20. Conclusions arising from a review of the whole subject.