The Origins of Psychics in the Eighteenth Century

Never in the history of europe had so many irrational persons wandered over the surface of europe claiming adherence. This is the favored age of all kinds of necromancers and chiromancers and hydromancers who wander over europe with their various nostrums. It is then that caliostro appears in paris and gets involved in the higher circles. It is that mesmer begins talking about animal spirits. The whole realm of those unconscious drives of which the twentieth century has made us so very acutely aware, began to breed some kind of satisfaction of its own. There was no doubt that while perhaps happiness and order might be provided by the new scientific philosophy, the irrational desires of men