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isis unveiled: chapter chapter VI (seeds of truth)

"When the professor began his investigations in 1853, he announced that he "felt called upon, as an act of duty to his fellow-creatures, to bring whatever influence he possessed to the attempt to stem the tide of popular madness, which, in defiance of reason and science, was fast setting in favor of the gross delusion [...]

isis unveiled: chapter chapter VI (seeds of truth)

"Speaking of the report of the committee of 1824, Dr. Alphonso Teste, a distinguished contemporaneous scientist, says that it produced a great impression on the Academy, but few convictions: "No one could question the veracity of the commissioners, whose good faith as well as great knowledge were undeniable, but they were suspected of having been [...]