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Author: Eusèbe Salverte
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Category : Magic
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Author: Eusèbe Salverte
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Category : Magic
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Author: Eusèbe Salverte
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108044301
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405
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A two-volume 1846 translation of an examination of miracles in ancient times by a French polymath, first published in 1829.
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Category : Occultism
Languages : en
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Author: Anne Joseph Eusèbe Baconnière-Salverte
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Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Author: Eusèbe Salverte
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110804431X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 403
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A two-volume 1846 translation of an examination of miracles in ancient times by a French polymath, first published in 1829.
Author: Eusebe Salverte
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ISBN: 9780243610235
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Languages : en
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Author: Eusebe Salverte
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781535176644
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Languages : en
Pages : 316
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The history of ancient times abounds in accounts of prodigies and manifestations of supernatural power, which the almost unanimous judgment of the modern world has stamped as pure fiction. The question, however, how such accounts found their way into records purporting to be authentic, received as such by the age that produced them, and preserve and handed down as such to our own times, has, perhaps, never been quite satisfactorily answered. These records are all we have to depend on for our knowledge of the times from which they date, or of which they treat. If their authority be disallowed, past ages become a blank to us. It is a point of some interest, therefore, to account for the presence, in them, of so much that seems incredible, and to show how that into which the apparently fabulous enters in so large a proportion, can yet be received, in the main, as true history. It is no solution of this difficulty to say, that antiquity was credulous, that it exercised no judgment upon the stories to which it gave currency, and believed, without inquiry, things the most improbable and absurd. If this be so, of what value is ancient history at all? Who would give anything for the testimony of those who are incapable of discriminating between what is rational and what is absurd, to whom the impossibility of a matter forms no ground for doubting its truth? In our courts of justice, what credit would a witness meet with, half of whose evidence was essentially incredible? Would not the other half go for nothing, merely on the score of its suspicious association, however credible in itself? lf we are to flatter ourselves that we know anything about the early past, we cannot be indifferent to the character of its historians, whether for veracity or for judgment, and if we find in their recitals many things to which we feel that we cannot yield credence, we are the more interested in the inquiry how these things won credence from them. In this inquiry, M. Salverte comes to our aid, and, with much ingenuity, endeavours to show that the great bulk of what ancient writers hand down to us as prodigy or miracle, instead of being mere fable, is capable of explanation on grounds intelligible to the present age, and thus that history, as far as these things are concerned, may be received as true in its narrative of facts, though it be often in error in the view it takes of the nature of the facts narrated. M. Salverte believes that a great mass of scientific knowledge was treasured up from a very early period in the temples of the heathen world, and even ventures on the bold conjecture, that many of the most illustrious discoveries in the domain of physics.... -The University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review
Author: Eusèbe Salverte
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ISBN: 9781704235561
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Languages : en
Pages : 654
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This examination of the connection between the belief in miracles and religious practices in ancient times was originally written by French politician and polymath Anne-Joseph-Eusèbe Baconnière de Salverte (1771-1839) and published in 1829. In 1846, it was translated into English by a Scottish physician and writer, Anthony Todd Thomson (1778-1849), and published in two volumes. Thomson explains that Salverte's work was an important study of miracles and the power of priests, and he had 'performed a beneficial service in throwing open the gates of ancient sanctuaries'. However, Thomson also states that he differed from Salverte over the idea of the miraculous, and that he had expunged or heavily edited any passages relating to Christianity, even changing 'miracles' in the original subtitle to 'apparent miracles'. Volume 1 begins with a consideration of human credulity before discussing magic in the ancient world, and offering explanations for supernatural phenomena. Volume 2 discusses the role of drugs and poison in magic, as well as the influence of weather on miraculous events.This edition is an exact facsimile of the 1847 edition currently held by The National Library of Medicine.
Author: Salverte Eusebe
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ISBN: 9780243819195
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Languages : en
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Author: Eusebe Salverte
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781377722115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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