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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
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Professor Hoffmann
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CHAPTER
VI.
CLAIRVOYANCE.
It
is
surprising
with
what
avidity
our
forefathers,
when
they
perceived
some
effect
arising
from
an
unknown
cause,
flew
to
the
aid
of
diablerie
and
the
supernatural
for
an
elucidation
of
the
mystery.
Without
seeking
at
once
to
work
out
a
cause
from
the
known
laws
of
nature
and
natural
phenomena,
they
stopped
all
pursuit
in
the
paths
of
inquiry
by
at
once
bringing
forward
his
Satanic
Majesty
as
the
cause
of
everything
and
every
occurrence
for
the
origin
of
which
they
could
not
give
an
immediate
explanation.
We
have
happily
reached
an
age
which
is
distinguished
for
its
matter
of-fact
treatment
of
all
that
appears
mysterious
and
unusual.
Thus
we
have,
by
our
rigid
inquiries
into
the
truth,
banished,
or
almost
banished,
those
dread
preventives
of
progress
and
civilization--superstition,
and
belief
in
the
supernatural.
But
even
at
the
present
day,
with
all
its
enlightenment
and
education,
we
find
the
weakness
of
our
ancestors
palpably
predominating
in
the
minds
of
the
ignorant
multitude,
and
spiritualism
and
magic
looked
upon
by
a
certain
number
of
persons
as
things
existing
and
beyond
the
ken
of
men.
Scientific
inquiry--that
broom
that
has
swept
away
so
many
superstitions--has
done
its
work
well,
and
it
cannot
be
long
before
the
bigoted
believers
in
the
so-called
“manifestation”
of
beings
in
another
and
unknown
world
will
be
looked
upon,
even
by
those
whose
belief
in
them
is
strongest,
as
the
mechanical
hanky-panky
tricks
of
clever
and
astute
conjurors,
who
feed
upon
the
credulity
and
simplicity
of
their
tools
and
followers.
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