CONTENTS. 



THE BEING AND FACULTIES OF MAN IN EEFEEENCE 

 TO NATURAL MAGIC. 



CHAPTER I. 



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Material and immaterial nature of man Body Mind Life 

 Feeling External matter Touch Separation and con- 

 nection of all these Plato and the soul Electricity 

 Epicurus Bishop Berkeley David Hume Consciousness 

 and matter Consciousness and the immaterial Reciprocal 

 contact Man's primary perceptive power Its contact with 

 and knowledge of matter and the immaterial Its proximity 

 to the infinite Cause of the Epicurean error Berkeley's 

 blunder the other way Cause of Hume's error Self-de- 

 ception in philosophy Fallacy in a syllogism ... 1 



CHAPTER II. 



Consciousness as the primary perceptive faculty of our Being- 

 Its contact with reality and with all our impressions and 

 sensations of reality Eye and Ear more subject to in- 

 fluence from simulated impressions than the other senses 

 Touch and Taste possess more positive powers and means 

 of accuracy Smell intermediate in point of power Bishop 

 Berkeley and the Eye Not the Eye that requires educa- 

 tion from experience, but the Consciousness The Eye 

 perfect from the first Difference between the Conscious- 

 ness of man and of other animals Difference between 

 instinct and reason The Seat of Sensation Misapprehcn- 



