A treatise on the second sight, dreams and apparitions; with several instances sufficiently attested, and an appendix of others equally authentic; The whole illustrated with letters to and from the author on the subject of his treatise; and a short dissertation on the mischievous effects of loose principles / By Theophilus Insulanus [pseud.] [i.e. D. M'Leod].

  • Macleod, Donald, 1729?-1781.
Date:
1763
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Credit: A treatise on the second sight, dreams and apparitions; with several instances sufficiently attested, and an appendix of others equally authentic; The whole illustrated with letters to and from the author on the subject of his treatise; and a short dissertation on the mischievous effects of loose principles / By Theophilus Insulanus [pseud.] [i.e. D. M'Leod]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ftances of dreams and the Second Sight, afcertained by numbers to rife in judgment againft them. alts: lately perufed Mr, Voltaire’s Letter to the Prince of Prufia, 1 find him paying his compli-— ments to his royal correfpéndent, for the favour of fending bin a little treatife concerning Mr. | Wolfe, whofe metaphyfics he regards as one of the | utmoft efforts of human genius; and feemed very : fond of another treatife from the fame hand, upon — the immor tality of the foul, and other articles of © the higheft importance: But, if the celebrated /ol-— taire, in his retreat, and ae his philofophic in- — quiries, fhould deign to relax his mind, and caft an ~ eye on this fmall performance , (which does not ap- year in the pompous drefs of learning, or-ftudied: . sertede he would perhaps find it more concife and expreflive, to give intire fatisfaction about the im- mortality of the foul,than what he could gather from — Wolfe’s or any other fyftem of metaphyfics : : ‘Seeing } refearches, and inveltigationsin that way, are pain- ful, tirefome to the memory, very, very often puts i the underftanding to a nonplus, and draws on the mind to a bottomlefs ocean, without fhore, without — limits; whereas the knowledge we receive from admitted facts of the Second Sight, and dreams, is fhort, eafy and without labour; level to all capaci- ties, and renew in the mind of man what revelation : dictates, and all-that can be defired to confirm the exiftence of fpirits, and the immortality of the foul. It is indeed matter of juit regret, to all ferious per. ons rig Nip aapinoe pe ¢ na praate a ae ae Cuan ~ wee