Demon Possession and Allied Themes: Being an Inductive Study of Phenomena of Our Own Times (Classic Reprint)

For several years I have been aware that Rev. Dr. John L. Nevius of Chefoo, China, was giving careful attention tX) certain strange psychical phenomena which were presented from time to time in the interior districts of theS hantung Province. I became more interested in the progress of his inquiries from the fact that upon an acquaintance continued for more than a quarter of a century I regarded him as a man peculiarly fitted to examine so intricate and difficult a subject. His philosophic insight, his judicial fairness of mind, his caution and his conscientious thoroughness, appeared to me admirable qualifications for such a study. Moreover his thorough mastery of the Chinese language spoken and written, his intimate sympathy with the people, and his correspondingly truer interpretation of their innermost thought and life, have rendered him still more capable of ascertaining the real facts in the case, and of forming accurate judgments upon them.
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