OF

MYSTERIOUS AGENTS,

HUMAN AND MUNDANE:

OR THE

Dynamic Laws and Relations of Man.

EMBRACING THE

NATURAL PHILOSOPHY OF PHENOMENA STYLED

“SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS.”

BY E C ROGERS.

"The relations of physical agents to the animal economy are infinite."- EDWARDS.
"We stand in connection with the universe by a new and hitherto unsuspected recipro
cation."-REICHENBACH.

BOSTON:

JOHN P. JEWETT AND COMPANY.

CLEVELAND, OHIO:

JEWETT, PROCTOR & WORTHINGTON.

1856.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by

E. C. ROGERS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts

PREFACE,.

CONTENTS.

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INTRODUCTION.

Method pursued by the author in these investigations-Philosophy of

cause and effect-Agents, substances and phenomena - No phenom-

ena without the relation of agents to substances Man's conscious

personality-Will and reason the highest finite agent,

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CHAPTER I.

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Unseen agents All primary agents are unseen- - Classification of the

modern phenomena - Every agent distinguished by its characteristics,

as displayed in the phenomena of nature - The phenomena of any

new agent exhibit new characteristics-Facts showing a new physical

agentMysterious phenomena in Woodbridge, N. J., in 1834-Case

of rappings in New Hackensack, N. Y., in 1789-Phenomena at the

house of Dr. Phelps, Stratford, Ct., in 1850-Facts in the Stockwell

case, in England, in 1772 — the Molesworth case, in 1835 - Physical

phenomena without intelligence,

CHAPTER II.

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PHENOMENA OF THE NEW PHYSICAL AGENT IN THE HUMAN ORGANISM,

CONTINUED.

Movements of objects and sounds without visible instruments and with-

out the characteristics of intelligence - M. Arago's investigations in

the case of Angelique Cottin-Important results of this inquiry-
Every phenomenon of nature may be repeated by an exact fulfilment

Application of this important law of nature-

do the above facts testify ?-Classification and deductions,

of its conditions

What

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