Isis Unveiled: chapter II (A Deeper Philosophy)

"Many of these mystics, by following what they were taught by some treatises, secretly preserved from one generation to another, achieved discoveries which would not be despised even in our modern days of exact sciences.   Roger Bacon, the friar, was laughed at as a quack, and is now generally numbered among "pretenders" to magic [...]

Isis Unveiled: chapter II (A Deeper Philosophy)

"Professor Agassiz, who occupied in America nearly the same eminent position as a scientist which Mr. Faraday did in England, acted with a still greater unfairness.   Professor J. R. Buchanan, the distinguished anthropologist, who has treated Spiritualism in some respects more scientifically than any one else in America, speaks of Agassiz, in a recent [...]