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isis unveiled: chapter chapter VII (thou great first cause)

"But what matters if they do deny? Can they prevent phenomena taking place in the four corners of the world, if their skepticism were a thousand times more bitter? Fakirs will still be buried and resuscitated, gratifying the curiosity of European travelers; and lamas and Hindu ascetics will wound, mutilate, and even disembowel themselves, and [...]

isis unveiled: chapter chapter VII (thou great first cause)

"It is easy to comprehend that a fact given in 1731, testifying to another fact which happened during the papacy of Paul III., for instance, is disbelieved in 1876. And when scientists are told that the Romans preserved lights in their sepulchres for countless years by the oiliness of gold; and that one of such [...]