THE JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE AND MENTAL PATHOLOGY. JANUARY 1, 1854. ART. I.-MODERN DEMONOLOGY AND DIVINATION.* THE association of ideas is manifested in national and social as well as individual habits of thought. There is also from age to age a progressive development of nations and societies which, varying in its successive phases, begins and ends in a like manner in every successive cycle, because it is guided onwards by similar associations of ideas, each linked to its predecessor and developing its successor. It follows, therefore, that the stages of development in the lives of nations as well as of * M. Tullii Ciceronis Libri de Divinatione et de Fato. The Course and Tendency of History since the Overthrow of Napoleon I. By Professor G. G. Gervinus. Contributions to Proleptics; or, the Science of Prevision. By Thomas Laycock, M.D. (York). Lancet, 1841-1813. The Coming Struggle among the Nations of the Earth; or, the Political Events of the next Fifteen Years. The Future of the Human Race; or, a Great, Glorious, and Peaceful Revolution near at hand, to be effected through the Agency of Departed Spirits, &c. By Robert Owen. A Review of the Spiritual Manifestations, in which it is attempted to prove that the Spirit-Rappings, &c., are the Work of Evil Spiritual Agents. By the Rev. Charles Beecher (brother of Mrs. Stowe). Table-Moving Tested, and proved to be the Result of Satanic Agency. By the Rev. N. S. Godfrey, S.C.L., of St. Catherine Hall, Cambridge, and Incumbent of Wortley, near Leeds. Table-Turning the Devil's Modern Masterpiece. Being the Result of a Course of Experiments. By the Rev. N. S. Godfrey, &c. Table-Talking. Disclosures of Satanic Wonders and Prophetic Signs. By the Rev. E. Gillson, M.A., Curate of Lyncombe and Widcombe, Bath. Table Turning not Diabolical. A Tract for the Times. By the Rev. F. Close, A.M., Incumbent of Cheltenham. Some Account of the Apparition of the Blessed Virgin at La Salette, in the Diocese of Grenoble, France. |