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—162 HYPNOTISM.by furnishing them with means of verification,and authorizing them to reject all consequencesessentially opposite to the well known physicallaws. A close study of this work will enable thekeen observer to gain a good idea of the phenomenaof Hypnotism, Mesmerism and Magnetism,and that man is composed of a physicalbody, and a spiritual soul, or psychic mind, andthat the power or influence he exerts over hisfellow men partakes of the properties of bothsubstances.Hypnotism, Mesmerism, orAnimal Magnetismconsidered as a power or an influence, is decidedlydifferent from all the other powers orforces of nature. It has its natural laws whichare not identical with the laws of matter. Consideredas a science, it has singular and peculiarprinciples which cannot be learned, except bycloseobservation, no idea of which can be obtainedfrom other well known sciences, so muchI can state with certainty, but I permit myselfhere to add as an opinion, common with me andmany enlightened men, but which I merely proposeas an opinionThat the theory of Hypnotism, Mesmerismand Personal Magnetism is based upon thisgreat principle, that there are in nature twokinds of substances, decidedly different in their