An Essay on Apparitions
In Which Their Appearance Is Accounted for by Causes Wholly Independent of Preternatural Agency (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from An Essay on Apparitions: In Which Their Appearance Is Accounted for by Causes Wholly Independent of Preternatural Agency<br><br>The following Essay was written originally for a Literary Society, to prove the reality of Ghosts, and by accounting for their appearance from natural causes, to remove those impressions of terror which are made upon the minds of youth, when apparitions are supposed to be preternatural.<br><br>This subject was illustrated by a number of cases, drawn from the author's own experience, and which cases were all of them capable of being authenticated at the time by the members of the society.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.