Mesmerism
Its Opponents (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Mesmerism: Its Opponents

In presenting a fresh edition of my little work to the Public, perhaps I shall be pardoned if I submit a few preliminary observations as to its nature and origin; for the earnest part that I take in the promotion of the somewhat unpopular subject of which it treats has probably excited surprise. With many, I appear to be stepping aside from my own vocation, in a cause where far abler men have failed before me, with little other prospect than that of losing the good opinion of the judicious, and of incurring an unnecessary amount of ill-will and misrepresentation. With others, the move is regarded as one, that professionally pursues a wrong, or at least, an unusual direction; and the conventionalist and the fastidious give me, therefore, their cold contempt. For all this, and more I am prepared. My object is to do good, great and essential good to the many and to the miserable; and a little odium and ridicule can be easily overborne. And yet (as is the case most commonly in the world) my motives have been rather of a mixed nature; and neither is the matter of the volume so very unprofessional.

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