Salem Witchcraft, the Planchette Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Samuel Robert Wells

Section 1 of The Salem Witchcraft, The Planship Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism.

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The Salem Witchcraft, The Planship Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Samuel Robert Wells.

with dr doddridge's dream history of salem witchcraft a review of charles w upham's great work from the edinburgh review with notes by the editor of the phrenological journal bigotry obstinate or blind attachment to a particular creed unreasonable zeal or warmth in favor of a party sect or opinion excessive prejudice

the practice or tenet of a bigot prejudice an opinion

or decision of mind formed without due examination of the facts or arguments which are necessary to a just and impartial determination a previous bent or inclination of mind for or against any person or thing injury or wrong of any kind as to act to the prejudice of another superstition excessive exactness or rigour in religious opinions or practice excess or extravagance in religion the doing of things not required by god Webster.

Webster.

introduction the object in reprinting this most interesting review is simply to show the progress made in moral intellectual and physical science the reader will go back with us to a time not very remote when nothing was known of phrenology and psychology when men and women were persecuted and even put to death

through the baldest ignorance and the most pitiable superstition if we were to go back still farther to the holy wars we should find cities and nations

drenched in human blood through religious bigotry and intolerance let us thank god that our lot is cast in a more fortunate age when the light of revelation rightly interpreted by the aid of science points to the source of all knowledge all truth all light When we know more of anatomy, physiology, physiognomy, and the natural sciences generally, there will be a spirit of broader liberality, religious tolerance, and individual freedom.

Then all men will hold themselves accountable to God, rather than to popes, priests, or parsons.

Our progenitors lived in a time that tried men's souls, as the following lucid review most painfully shows.