Philosophy of
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- TO HIS COUSINS,
- STEPHEN DENDY, ESQ.
- OF PARIS,
- AND
- CHARLES COOK DENDY, ESQ.
- OF SOUTHGATE HOUSE, CHICHESTER;
- AND TO HIS BROTHER,
- EDWARD STEPHEN DENDY,
- THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED,
- IN TOKEN OF THE AFFECTIONATE REGARD
- OF THE AUTHOR.
- CONTENTS.
- THE
- PHILOSOPHY OF MYSTERY.
- THE CHALLENGE.
- NATURE AND MOTIVES OF GHOSTS.
- PROPHECY OF SPECTRES.
- ILLUSION OF SPECTRES.
- PHANTASY FROM MENTAL ASSOCIATION.
- ASTR. And——
- PHANTASY FROM CEREBRAL EXCITEMENT.
- EV. In that awful moment, when the spirit is
- And remember, the dying Hotspur says,—
- PHANTASY FROM CEREBRAL CONGESTION.—OPIUM.
- And Pope also in his unconscious imitation,—
- Listen to the confessions of such a slave:—
- POETIC PHANTASY, OR FRENZY.
- PHANTASY FROM SYMPATHY WITH THE BRAIN.
- MYSTERIOUS FORMS AND SIGNS.
- ANALYSIS AND CLASSIFICATION OF SPECTRAL ILLUSION.
- ILLUSIONS OF ART.
- ILLUSTRATION OF MYSTERIOUS SOUNDS.
- FAIRY MYTHOLOGY.
- DEMONOLOGY.
- CAST. And is there wisdom, Evelyn, in thus
- Then, by the power of the telescope, we roam into other systems—
- NATURE OF SOUL AND MIND.
- NATURE OF SLEEP.
- SUBLIMITY AND IMPERFECTION OF DREAMING.
- Nay, in the words of Beattie himself, in his “Essay on Truth,”—
- In a moment of rapture, I cried,—
- PROPHECY OF DREAMS.
- MORAL CAUSES OF DREAMING.
- Or, as Dryden has written,—
- ANACHRONISM AND COINCIDENCE OF DREAMS.
- First, of Homer,—
- Then there is this anathema of Ennius:—
- MATERIAL CAUSES OF DREAMS.
- INTENSE IMPRESSION.—MEMORY.
- INFLUENCE OF DARK BLOOD IN THE BRAIN.
- INCUBUS, OR NIGHT-MARE.
- SOMNILOQUENCE.—SOMNAMBULISM.
- I interrupt you, Evelyn.
- IMITATIVE MONOMANIA.
- REVERIE.
- ABSTRACTION OF INTELLECT.
- SOMNOLENCE.—TRANCE.—CATALEPSY.
- PREMATURE INTERMENT.—RESUSCITATION.
- TRANSMIGRATION.—ANALYSIS OF TRANCE.
- TWELFTH NIGHT.
- And Plato, in Timæus, and in Phædo—
- MESMERISM.
- Astrophel reminds me by his frown——
- EV. And therefore forbid belief.—
- SIBYLLINE INFLUENCE.
- THE END.
- PRACTICAL REMARKS ON
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