The Philosophy of Mystery

Name: The Philosophy of Mystery
Author: Dendy, Walter Cooper

Dendy, Walter Cooper

Apparitions; Dreams; Occultism -- Early works to 1900; Parapsychology -- Early works to 1900

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                                  THE
                               PHILOSOPHY
                                   OF
                                MYSTERY.

[Illustration]

    “We so intreateth this serious and terrible matter of Spirites,
    that now and then insertyng some strange stories of
    counterfeyts, doth both very lybely display their falsehood, and
    also not a little recreate his reader: and yet in the ende he so
    aptly concludeth to the purpose, that his hystories seeme not
    idle tales, or impertinent vagaries, but very truethes,
    naturally falling under the compasse of his matter.”

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                                  THE
                               PHILOSOPHY
                                   OF
                                MYSTERY.


                                   BY

                          WALTER COOPER DENDY,
    FELLOW AND HONORARY LIBRARIAN OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON;
      SENIOR SURGEON TO THE ROYAL INFIRMARY FOR CHILDREN, &c. &c.

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                                LONDON:
                LONGMAN, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS,
                            PATERNOSTER ROW.
                                  ———
                                 1841.

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                    GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS,
                       St. John’s Square, London.

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                            TO HIS COUSINS,

                          STEPHEN DENDY, ESQ.

                               OF PARIS,

                                  AND

                        CHARLES COOK DENDY, ESQ.

                    OF SOUTHGATE HOUSE, CHICHESTER;

                          AND TO HIS BROTHER,

                         EDWARD STEPHEN DENDY,

                       THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED,

                  IN TOKEN OF THE AFFECTIONATE REGARD

                             OF THE AUTHOR.

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                               CONTENTS.


                                                             PAGE
                        THE CHALLENGE.
      Scenery on the Wye—A Ghost Seer—Tintern                 1-5
        Abbey—Faith and Scepticism in the reality of
        Phantoms

                NATURE AND MOTIVES OF GHOSTS.
      Notions of the Ancients regarding the nature of        6-17
        Ghosts—Confidence of the Ancients in their
        appearance—Modern Incidents in illustration of
        real appearance—Qualities of Ghosts—Motives of
        Apparitions—Ancient and modern Stories

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