Excerpt from A Discussion on the Automatic Powers of the Brain: Being a Defence Against Rev. Charles Beecher's Attack Upon the Philosophy of Mysterious Agents, in His Review of "Spiritual Manifestations"

IN accounting for the phenomena of the present day (by some attributed to Spirits in another state of existence), the author has never, from the beginning, made it his aim to originate a theory. His object has been to find the truth, Without respect to preconceived notions either of his own mind or that of others, Whether ancient or modern. The Philosophy of Mysterious Agents is, in part, the result of his honest endeavors.

The favor with which it has been received by a large class of discriminating minds, the demand for additional facts, the confirmation Which the author has of late received from one of the most distinguished physiologists of Europe as to cerebral automatic powers in man, and the attack that has just been made upon precisely this principle by a learned clergyman of the Congregational church, these have induced the author to put forth the present pamphlet.

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