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increase yet ? I have lately been having- my doubts. 

 Ennemoser, in his book about Magic and Witch- 

 craft, says very truly " All these superstitions 

 " stood on the same basis, that is, the devilish. 

 " Protestants and Catholics alike believed that the 

 " devil possessed at least as great power as God 

 " himself." The popular ideas about diseases and 

 miseries seem to me even in the present day to be 

 founded upon exactly the same basis. 



June 1st, 1866. 



