Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Stephanie Eason and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) THE PHANTOM WORLD: THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SPIRITS, APPARITIONS, &c. &c. FROM THE FRENCH OF AUGUSTINE CALMET. WITH A PREFACE AND NOTES BY THE REV. HENRY CHRISTMAS, M.A., F.R.S., F.S.A., LIBRARIAN AND SECRETARY OF SION COLLEGE. Quemadmodum multa fieri non posse, priusquam facta sunt, judicantur; ita multa quoque, quae antiquitus facta, quia nos ea non vidimus, neque ratione assequimur, ex iis esse, quae fieri non potuerunt, judicamus. Quae certe summa insipientia est.--PLIN. _Hist. Nat._ lib. vii. c. 1. TWO VOLUMES IN ONE. PHILADELPHIA: A. HART, LATE CAREY & HART. 1850. PHILADELPHIA: T. K. AND P. G. COLLINS, PRINTERS. TO HENRY JAMES SLACK, ESQ., F.G.S. &c. &c. &c. MY DEAR HENRY-- I inscribe these volumes with your name to record a friendship which has lasted from our infancy, tain____________ suspicion, and darkened by no shadow. So long as eminent talents can challenge admiration, varied and extensive acquirements command respect, and unfeigned virtues ensure esteem and regard, so long will you have no common claim to them all; and none will pay the tribute more gladly than your affectionate Friend and Cousin, HENRY CHRISTMAS. SION COLLEGE, _March, 1850._ INTRODUCTION.