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  | title = Magic and Prophecy in the East  

  | title = Magic and Prophecy in the East  

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  | source title = Spiritual Scientist

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  | source details = v. 1, No. 7, October 22, 1874, p. 74

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{{Style S-Small capitals|The}} author of “Traces of Travel brought from the East” says,—

{{Style S-Small capitals|The}} author of “Traces of Travel brought from the East” says,—

{{Style P-Quote|“In Syria, and Palestine, and Egypt, you might as well dispute the efficacy of grass or grain as of Magic. There is no controversy about the matter. The effect of this, the unanimous belief of an ignorant people, upon the mind of a stranger is extremely curious, and well worth noticing. A man coming freshly from Europe is, at first, proof against the nonsense with which he is assailed ; but often it happens that after a little while the social atmosphere in which he lives will begin to infect him, and if he has been accustomed to the cunning of sense, by which Reason prepares the means of guarding herself against fallacy, he will yield himself at last to the faith of those around him : and this he will do by sympathy, it would seem, rather than from conviction.”}}

{{Style P-Quote|“In Syria, and Palestine, and Egypt, you might as well dispute the efficacy of grass or grain as of Magic. There is no controversy about the matter. The effect of this, the unanimous belief of an ignorant people, upon the mind of a stranger is extremely curious, and well worth noticing. A man coming freshly from Europe is, at first, proof against the nonsense with which he is assailed ; but often it happens that after a little while the social atmosphere in which he lives will begin to infect him, and if he has been accustomed to the cunning of sense, by which Reason prepares the means of guarding herself against fallacy, he will yield himself at last to the faith of those around him : and this he will do by sympathy, it would seem, rather than from conviction.”}}  

While thus making light of the Spiritualism of the East the author gives the following to illustrate the prophetic or clairvoyant pretensions of Lady Hester Stanhope. He says,—

While thus making light of the Spiritualism of the East the author gives the following to illustrate the prophetic or clairvoyant pretensions of Lady Hester Stanhope. He says,—

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