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are, the sense of sight, the sense of hearing, the 

 sense of taste, the sense of smell, the sense of heat, 

 and the sense of force. The sense of force is the 

 sixth sense ; or the senses of heat and of force are 

 the sense of touch divided into two, to complete 

 the census of six senses that I am endeavouring 

 to demonstrate. 



Now I have hinted at a possible seventh sense 

 a magnetic sense and though out of the line 

 I propose to follow, and although time is precious, 

 and does not permit much of digression, I wish 

 just to remove the idea that -I am in any way 

 suggesting anything towards that wretched super- 

 stition of animal magnetism, and table-turning, 

 and spiritualism, and mesmerism, and clairvoyance, 

 ai\d spirit-rapping, of which we have heard so 

 much. There is no seventh sense of the mystic 

 kind. Clairvoyance, and the like, are the result 

 of bad observation chiefly ; somewhat mixed up, 

 however, with the effects of wilful imposture, 

 acting on an innocent trusting mind. But if 

 there is not a distinct magnetic sense, I say it is 

 a very great wonder that there is not. 



