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358 THE WILL IN NATURE.<br />

reason, has been violently assailed by the anathemas of the<br />

French, and even of the German, clergy. 1<br />

1 On the 4th of August, 1856, the Roman Inquisition issued a circular<br />

to all the bishops, in which it called upon them in the name of the<br />

Church to use their utmost influence against the practice of Animal<br />

Magnetism. The reasons for this are given with striking want of lucidity<br />

and great vagueness, and even here and there are not unmixed with<br />

falsehood ; and it is easy to see that the Church is reluctant to own the<br />

real reason. This circular is published in the &quot;Turin Journal&quot; of<br />

&quot;<br />

December, 1856, and again in the French Univers,&quot; and reprinted from<br />

&quot;<br />

this in the Journal desDSbats&quot; of January 3rd, 1857. [Add. to 3rd ed,]

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