isis unveiled: chapter xi (magical history)

"Strange condition of the human mind, which seems to require that it should long exercise itself in ERROR, before it dare approach the TRUTH." - MAGENDIE "La verite que je defends est empreinte sur tous les monuments du passe Pour comprendre l'histoire, il faut etudier les symboles anciens, les signes sacres du sacerdoce, et l'art [...]

isis unveiled: chapter x (outside the walls…)

"Arrived at this point, des Mousseaux loses all patience, and indignantly exclaims: "Was the learned physician quite awake when writing the above sentences?...If, perchance, the Drs. Calmeil and Figuier should seriously maintain their assertions and insist on their theory, we are ready to answer them as follows: 'We are perfectly willing to believe you. But [...]

isis unveiled: chapter x (outside the walls…)

""Let us remark, besides", rejoins Dr. Calmeil, quoted by Figuier, "that for striking upon the bodies of the Convulsionnaires use was made either of massive objects with flat or rounded surfaces, or of cylindrical and blunt shapes. The action of such physical agents is not to be compared, in respect to the danger which attaches [...]