The Seeress of Prevorst: Being Revelations Concerning the Inner-Life of Man (Classic Reprint)

A s, in presenting this curious work to the public, it was my object to mane a book that should be generally accessible, a literal translation became out of the question. Besides considerable prolixity, there is a great deal of repetition, in the original; some parts would have been found too dry, and.oth,efe too mystical, for the general reader. I have, therefore, thought it advisable to make a I ree translation, giving the sum and substance of the book as succinctly as I could; only varying from this plan, where I thought a close adherence to the words of the author was indispensable. I apprehend that many of the extraordinary phenomena recorded by Kemer will not find very general credence with English readers; but to the believers mclairvoyance, the book will have a deep interest whilst, to the larger class, who are not yet prepared to yield faith to its wonders, I should imagine that the facts would sti Lbe considered well worthy of attention, both in a physiological and a psychologica point of view. I sny facts; because I capnot conceive the possibility of any candid mind doubting the greatest number of them, after reading the book; or of such an one entertaining a suspicion of imposture,.on the part either of physician or patient. I ndeed, Kerner swU-known character, ought to exempt him from such an imputation from any quarter; and, for my own part, I reject with horror the idea, that in a suflfering creature, who lived ever on the verge of the grave, so much apparent innocence and piety should have been but the cloak to so useless and cruel a deception. Nothing is more easy than to set up a ciy of imposture. It is a convenient mode of eluding the trouble of inquiry, and of stifling facts obnoxious to preconceived theories ;but it is a vulgar resource, as well as a cowardly one 5though, I am soriy to say, in no country does the practice prevail so much
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