Animal Magnetism and Magnetic Lucid Somnambulism 1866

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THE following passage, from the "Principia" of Newton, appears in some degree to corroborate the opinion of Mesmer respecting the existence of a universally-diffused imponderable fluid, and to have anticipated the results recently announced by Reichenbach, as deducible from his experiments: We might add something on the subject of a certain very subtle spirit which exists in the latent state in solid bodies.