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Seen and the Unseen. 
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W [ th , hi ?’ which was most ^timate from 
1841 z «. t0 , l8 45» he had not an hour’s schooling, nor could 
he have afforded it consistently with his circumstances, yet 
rnnfm f an enquiring mind,— loved books, especially 
controversial religious works.” “The singular bowers 
Mr'wl °T Mr ' D f aV1S W6re brou &ht into public notice by 
^f VlngS i° n ’ a tailor ’ ^ whom he continued to be 
mesmerised for eighteen months.” 
vm° n Dec ® mber Ist > I ^43> the first experiment of his clair- 
voyant state took place under various tests which were quite 
WaS t0 eStaWiSh hiS P0Wer 0f 
Mr. Fishbough became acquainted with him in July, 1844, 
at the time when Mr. Davis, a boy of 18, was thrown into 
Rpfn J nes ™ en f < + s u tate u for the purpose of examining disease. 
-Before him the human system seemed entirely trans- 
parent, and to our utter astonishment he employed the 
technical terms of Anatomy, Physiology, and Materia Medica 
as familiarly as household words. . . . From infallible indi- 
cations presented we saw that there could be no collusion or 
eception, and no such thing as receiving his impressions 
sympathetically from the mind of his magnetiser.” 
Mr. Fishbough is entirely of opinion that the work was 
not the result of sympathetic impulse. There were in all 
one hundred and fifty-seven ledtures ; the time of delivery 
varied from forty minutes to four hours, commencing 
November 28th, 1845, and concluding January 25th, 1847. 
witnesses, a mesmeriser, and a scribe were chosen by 
Mr. Davis when in an abnormal state. Other persons also 
were admitted during the delivery of the lectures, “ranging 
from one to six, whether they were believers or unbelievers 
in clairvoyance, and such persons were always instantly 
distinguished by the lecturer while in his superior state.” 
For other matter respecting the ledtures, or Mr. Davis 
leference must be made to Mr. Fishbough’s memoir in the 
commencement of the hook. 
The work contains 782 pages 8vc., of close print. How- 
ever peculiar its phraseology and immense its tautology, it 
professes to be a Philosophy, comprising Cosmology, the 
peopling the world, advent of man, and his destiny. There is 
also a complete Biblical commentary. It must be confessed 
that the reading the work is one of intense and wearisome 
labour, yet to the curious in such literature the labour is 
repaid, as it exposes a really grand philosophy. The key- 
note of the whole is — From Motion came Matter ; from Life, 
with the addition of Motion, the Vegetable Kingdom arose; 
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