Mesmerism and 'The Development of Species' may wait till they have settled themselves somewhat more into sciences; at present it does not much matter what agrees or disagrees with them.
They teach nothing of mesmerismor hypnotism at the universities.
All mesmerism is of one of three kinds; namely, the ignorant, the fraudulent, or the malicious workings of error or mortal mind.
He had been fearlessly exposing and denouncing evil; and it had turned on him, till themesmerism was likely to overcome him entirely, for he did not understand the seeming power.
This new sect devotes itself to a study of the Bible, and a practice of curing disease without mesmerism or spiritualism.
If mesmerism has the power attributed to it by the gentle- man referred to, it should neither be taught nor practised, but should be conscientiously condemned.
The mother was recently attacked by mesmerismfrom the church that believed she was influencing her daughter to leave.
Is spiritualism or mesmerism included in Christian [10] Science?
Hygiene, manipulation, andmesmerism are not Mind's medicine.
But belief in mesmerism is not the same thing as general unbelief--to do it justice--now is it?
And Miss Martineau is practising mesmerism and miracles on all sides she says, and counts on Archbishop Whately as a new adherent.
In this view, mesmerism assumes a most interesting aspect, forming, as it were, a link between the present and the future world.
They were simply frightened away by the sudden movement of my chibook, and there was no science and no mesmerism about it.
Some curious experiments in the production of local anaesthesia were observed by the committee on mesmerism from the Society for Psychical Research.
He experimented upon hysterical patients in his wards at La Salpetriere, and, as a result, he rediscovered mesmerism under the name of hypnotism, just a century after it had been discovered by Mesmer and disowned by the French Academy.
He was illiterate, and knew nothing then of the science of Mind-healing; and I was as ignorant of mesmerism as Eve before she was tempted by the serpent.
Quimby was not an educated man in the technical meaning of the term; but, through his experiments in mesmerism and his personal experiences, he was led directly to what in the history of philosophy is called "absolute idealism.
But the truth underlying it has now procured a hearing even before eminently timid 'societies of psychical research,' and will soon conquer them, as mesmerism has done.
On taking up mesmerism in New England, Mr. Quimby had been very ill and given up by his physicians to die.
Mesmerism was one of his scientific attractions, and he had a subject upon whom he operated at times with the greatest seeming success, and fairly astonished his audiences.
I kept up this performance for several weeks, till I quite killed Peale’s “genuine” mesmerism in the rival establishment.
Strange to say, believers in mesmerism used to witness her performances with the greatest pleasure and adduce them as positive proofs that there was something in mesmerism, and they applauded tremendously--up to a certain point.
The Royal College, Dublin, the same year, in a resolution passed, called Mesmerism and homeopathy quackery.
Clairvoyance now made its appearance, which was but a different phase of magnetism, and Mesmerism was soon but indifferently practised in France.
After all it is a man, and mesmerism furnishes a key to all this seeming mystery,' thought I; and with this consoling supposition I went to bed, and there reproduced all that he had said or done.
A little while ago you observed that Mesmerism was a force Spiritual; but I am not so sure that you are correct.
That this society had cultivated mesmerism to a degree unapproachable by all the world besides.
Underneath were lines to the effect that Daniel the Mystic, Prince of Mesmerism and Seer of the Unseen, was Coming, Coming!
Also Harriet Martineau can walk five miles a day with ease, and believes in mesmerism with all her strength.
She said of mesmerism altogether that she was inclined to believe it, but had not finally made up her convictions.
Footnote 117: Miss Martineau, besides having been cured by mesmerism herself, was blest with a housemaid who had visions under the same influence, concerning which Miss Martineau subsequently wrote at great length in the Athenaeum.
Barnum kept up this performance for several weeks, till he quite killed Peale's "genuine" mesmerism in the rival establishment.
Strange to say, believers in mesmerism used to witness her performances with the greatest pleasure, and adduce them as positive proofs that there was something in mesmerism, and they applauded tremendously--up to a certain point.
Mesmerism was then a great novelty, and Peale was given exhibitions of it.
But mesmerism meant more than incidental amusement or even scientific experiment to us in those Antwerp and Malines days.
Although mesmerism had estranged her from a sister, and theology from a brother, she made no display of bitter feelings towards them and theirs in her last will.
He said, "You who have always declared yourself proof against mesmerism have succumbed at last to my friend Richards.
It is so with the now familiar phenomena of mesmerism or electro-biology; the mind of the person operated on is affected through a material living agent.
What is commonly calledmesmerism could not do this; but there may be a power akin to mesmerism, and superior to it--the power that in the old days was called Magic.
Just as mesmerism lost its reputation as a branch of psychology, so has spiritualism begun to be estimated at its true value.
At first mesmerism swayed him, but he learned through my forbearance to govern himself.
It was not long, however, before Chick, like all other dogs, succumbed to the dog mesmerism of that hearty good-will and affection in which dogs are apt to trust with a much more generous confidence than men.
Mesmerism was treated with no less contempt until a new name was given it, and Charcot declared that there was not only something but a good deal in it deserving the attention of scientists.
He thinks extraordinary curative effects, so far as the consciousness of pain goes, are to be derived from hypnotism, which is Mesmerismwith a new Greek name.
Upon the rule which the author adopts, that "the invisible is the only true," we cannot rely upon our deceptive organs and should disbelievemesmerism because we see it.
We so far agree with the last quoted sentence, as to admit that, when experiments fairly tried by competent parties have and do succeed, mesmerism will be established--hitherto they have not succeeded.
He had never heard of mesmerism till I spoke of it before him, and I then only so far enlightened him on the subject, as to tell him that it was something which might, perhaps, benefit his sight.
Taking this simple view of sensation, (that objects should be brought into a certain relation with us by something intermediate,) we find nothing in mesmerism contradictory of nature.
And yet the facts ofmesmerism are to be judged of by the very senses which mesmerism proves to be so fallacious.
Do you think,' I asked, 'that mesmerismwill do you good?
An accusation, couched in bitter terms, that Simpson was really a supporter of mesmerism as it was then known, was published in one of the leading professional journals in London.
Simpson acknowledged that there was a great deal in mesmerism demanding scientific investigation; but with his reasoning powers he could not realise the existence of the mystically-termed higher phenomena of animal magnetism, e.
About this same period mesmerismwas again coming to the front, this time cloaked as a science termed electro-biology.
A Frenchman named Du Potet, disheartened by the prejudice against mesmerism in his own country, came to London in 1837, and was fortunate enough to receive the support of Dr.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mesmerism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: autosuggestion; enchantment; hypnotism; spell
