Scientific religion Author:Laurence Oliphant Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 28 CHAPTER II. RECENT EXAMINATION INTO THE NATURE OF THE FORCES LATENT IN THE HUMAN ORGANISM — HYPNOTIC EXPERIMENTS IN FRANCE, AND THE PSYCHICAL RESEARCH S... more »OCIETY IN ENGLAND, FAMILIARISING THE SCIENTIFIC MIND WITH FORCES FORMERLY IGNORED — THEIR ORIGIN IN THE UNSEEN UNIVERSE — FORMER CONCEPTION OF MATTER MODIFIED BY RECENT DISCOVERIES—SIR HENRY ROSCOE ON ATOMS — INSEPARABILITY OF MATTER AND FORCE — DYNA8PHERIC FORCE — SCIENTIFIC FACTS VALUABLE, CONCLUSIONS MISLEADING — HYPNOTIC EXPERIMENTS WITNESSED BY ME IN PARIS — HYPNOTISM RECOGNISED BY THE MEDICAL FACULTY IN FRANCE AS DANGEROUS — SPIRITUAL INSIGHT NECESSARY TO DISCOVER THE NATURE AND ORIGIN OF THESE FORCES, AND TO QUALIFY THE OPERATOR TO DEAL WITH THEM. Within the last few years an increasing amount of attention has been directed to an examination of those forces connected with the human organism, which for more than half a century have been vaguely known under the name of magnetic, whose existence even under this general term science has been reluctant to recognise; or, if unable altogether to deny the fact that such forces did exist, it has shrunk from investigating them, lest it should be seduced away from the ground which it terms positive, but which might perhaps be more appropriately styled negative. As, however, these forces gained power under the new conditions which are invading the race, they forced themselves upon the notice of the world in general with such persistence, that it was no longer possible for them to be excluded from the range of scientific research, and as an evidence of this we have experiments of the leading medical practitioners in France, recording the result of their observations, in a monthlyPHENOMENA OF HYPNOTISM. 29 periodical started for the purpose;1 and of the two schools devoted ...« less