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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
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Professor Hoffmann
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Among
the
many
subjects
which
were
classed
with
the
supernatural
phenomena
arising
from
the
agency
of
unseen
and
spiritual
powers,
clairvoyance,
or
second
sight,
ranks
conspicuous.
It
has
been
asserted,
and
by
no
mean
authority,
that
second
sight,
or
the
belief
in
a
secondary
and
unnatural
sight,
took
its
origin
in
the
Scottish
Highlands
and
Isles,
where
it
was
known
by
the
name
of
taisch--a
spectral
or
shadowy
appearance;
but
from
the
time
when
the
Oracle
at
Delphi
was
sought
by
the
populace,
and
when
thousands
were
deluded
by
the
mere
mechanical
tricks
of
a
clever
and
crafty
priesthood,
even
to
this
day,
second
sight
has
been
looked
upon
as
a
spiritual
visitation
bestowed
for
some
design
upon
persons
who
are
made
the
instruments
of
Providence.
That
at
times
men
have
had
a
prescience
of
what
was
to
come
cannot
be
denied,
since
murders
and
murderers
have
been
undoubtedly
discovered
by
means
of
visions
which
have
been
seen
of
the
murderer,
and
the
spot
where
the
murder
was
committed.
Even
Dr.
Johnson,
in
his
Journal
in
the
Hebrides,
where
the
belief
in
second
sight
prevailed
to
a
great
extent,
hesitates
whether
to
believe
or
deny;
and
he
asserts
that
he
“came
away
at
last
only
willing
to
believe.”
It
is
not
my
intention,
nor
have
I
the
time
or
space,
to
enter
fully
into
the
subject
of
second
sight
of
the
past,
but
it
is
my
intention
to
fully
explain
second
sight,
as
it
is
understood
now,
and
the
reader
will
at
once
see
how
the
old
fabric
of
the
superstitious
ages
melts
into
the
most
commonplace,
and
he
will
be
perhaps
vexed
and
annoyed
to
think
that
when
witnessing
a
performance
of
second
sight
his
mind
misgave
him,
and
he
really
was
willing
to
believe.
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