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"To pass from the philosophical speculations of a man like Schopenhauer to the superficial generalizations of some of the french Academicians, would be profitless but for the fact that it enables us to estimate the intellectual grasp of the two schools of learning.   What the German makes of profound psychological questions, we have seen. [...]

""Besides that", continues Schopenhauer, "these manifestations present to us a substantial and perfectly logical contradiction to materialism, and even to naturalism, because in the light of such manifestations, that order of things in nature which both these philosophies seek to present as absolute and the only genuine, appears before us on the contrary purely phenomenal [...]

"No one can better treat his subject than does Schopenhauer in his Parerga. In this work he discusses at length animal magnetism, clairvoyance, sympathetic cures, seership, magic, omens, ghost-seeing, and other spiritual matters.   "All these manifestation," he says, "are branches of one and the same tree, and furnish us with irrefutable proofs of the [...]

"The ideas of some of our schoolmen about matter are, from the kabalistic standing-point, in many a way erroneous. Hartmann calls their views "an instinctual prejudice." Furthermore, he demonstrates that no experimenter can have anything to do with matter properly termed, but only with the forces into which he divides it. The visible effects of [...]