The history of the supernatural Author:William Howitt 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: CHAPTER IV. MANIFESTATIONS OF THE SUPERNATURAL IN GERMANY continued. Eschenmayer, Schubert, Gorres, Ennemoser, Meyer, Kant, etc. THE calm, careful, a... more »nd impartial observer, as Eschenmayer is termed by Kerner, with a noble superiority to the generality of men who have devoted themselves to medicine and natural and practical philosophy, after having closely watched the phenomena manifested in and by the Seercss of Prevorst, became one of the boldest and steadfastest proclaimers of the truths of spiritualism. He was originally professor of practical philosophy in the University of Tubingen, but had for some years lived independently at Kircheim-under-Tcck. He was a disciple of Kant and Schelling, without accepting the absolute-identity theory of the latter. He was the author of celebrated works —' Philosophy in its Transition into Non- Philosophy ;' ' An Attempt to explain the apparent Magic of Animal Magnetism by Physical and Physiological Laws.' These he had followed up by works on Moral Philosophy, Normal Eight and Canon Laws; but his ' Psychology ;' his ' Philosophy of Religion,' and ' Dogmatics drawn from Reason, History and Religion,' displayed the tendency of his mind towards the higher mysteries of our nature. The case of the Seeress of Prevorst, therefore, was one of the profoundest interest to him; and he not only published his observations upon it, but joined with Kerner in a series of VON ECKARTSHAUSEN. 69 papers on spiritual subjects, afterwards collected under the name of Blatter aus Prevorst,' ' Leaves from Prevorst.' He also, strengthened by foundation of positive facts drawn from this practical insight into psychology, attacked the infidel philosophy of Hegel, under the title of ' The Hegel Philosophy compared with Christianity;' and he dissected St...« less