Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Vol. 32

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Vol. 32: July to December, 1845 It will be found that the same pecu liar state of the nervous system, induced b various processes. Has existed to a much greater extent than we had any notion of. And that it has been at the root of most of the religious impostures and epidemic irruptions of fanaticism, which at did'ar ent times have manifested themselves in various parts of the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.