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age,{{Footnote mark|*|fn163}} full of dead and dying faiths; full of idle prayers sent out in vain search for the departing gods. But oh! it is a glorious age, full of the golden light which streams from the ascending sun of science! What shall we do for those who are shipwrecked in faith, {{Style S-Italic|bankrupt in intellect,}} but . . . who seek comfort in the {{Style S-Italic|mirage of spiritualism,}} the delusions of transcendentalism, or the {{Style S-Italic|will o’ the wisp}} of mesmerism? . . . .”

{{Style P-No indent|age,{{Footnote mark|*|fn163}} full of dead and dying faiths; full of idle prayers sent out in vain search for the departing gods. But oh! it is a glorious age, full of the golden light which streams from the ascending sun of science! What shall we do for those who are shipwrecked in faith, {{Style S-Italic|bankrupt in intellect,}} but . . . who seek comfort in the {{Style S-Italic|mirage of spiritualism,}} the delusions of transcendentalism, or the {{Style S-Italic|will o’ the wisp}} of mesmerism? . . . .”}}

The {{Style S-Italic|ignis fatuus,}} now so favorite an image with many dwarf philosophers, had itself to struggle for recognition. It is not so long since the now familiar phenomenon was stoutly denied by a correspondent of the London {{Style S-Italic|Times,}} whose assertions carried weight, till the work of Dr. Phipson, supported by the testimony of Beccaria, Humboldt, and other naturalists, set the question at rest.{{Footnote mark|†|fn164}} The Positivists should choose some happier expression, and follow the discoveries of science at the same time. As to mesmerism, it has been adopted in many parts of Germany, and is publicly used with undeniable success in more than one hospital; its occult properties have been proved and are believed in by physicians, whose eminence, learning, and merited fame, the self-complacent lecturer on mediums and insanity cannot well hope to equal.

The {{Style S-Italic|ignis fatuus,}} now so favorite an image with many dwarf philosophers, had itself to struggle for recognition. It is not so long since the now familiar phenomenon was stoutly denied by a correspondent of the London {{Style S-Italic|Times,}} whose assertions carried weight, till the work of Dr. Phipson, supported by the testimony of Beccaria, Humboldt, and other naturalists, set the question at rest.{{Footnote mark|†|fn164}} The Positivists should choose some happier expression, and follow the discoveries of science at the same time. As to mesmerism, it has been adopted in many parts of Germany, and is publicly used with undeniable success in more than one hospital; its occult properties have been proved and are believed in by physicians, whose eminence, learning, and merited fame, the self-complacent lecturer on mediums and insanity cannot well hope to equal.