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 THE WILL IN NATURE.

reason, has been violently assailed by the anathemas of the French, and even of the German, clergy. 1

1 On the 4th of August, 1856, the Roman Inquisition issued a circular to all the bishops, in which it called upon them in the name of the Church to use their utmost influence against the practice of Animal Magnetism. The reasons for this are given with striking want of lucidity and great vagueness, and even here and there are not unmixed with falsehood; and it is easy to see that the Sanctum Officium [Holy Office] is reluctant to own the real reason. This circular is published in the Turin Journal of December, 1856, and again in the French Univers, and reprinted from this in the Journal des Débats of January 3rd, 1857. [Add. to 3rd ed,]