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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    “ Ar the fame time, I think a perfon who is thus terrified with the imagination of ghofts and f{re‘tres, much more reafonable than one, who, contrary to the reports of all hiftorians, facred and profane, ancient and modern, and pearance of {pirits fabulous and groundlefs : could not I give myfelf up to this general teftimony of mankind, I fhould to the rela- tions of particular perfons who are now li- ving, and whom I cannot diftruft in other matters of faét. I might here add, that not only the hiftorians, to whom we may join | the poets, but likewife the philofophers of tius himfelf, though, by the courfe of his philofophy, he was obliged to maintain that the foul did not exift feparate from the body, makes no doubt of the reality of apparitions, and that men have often appeared after their death. This I think very remarkable; he was fo preffed with the matter of fact, which he could not have the confidence to deny, that he was foreed to account for it, by one of the moft abfurd unphilofophical. notions that ever was ftarted. He tells us, that the furfaces of all bodies are perpetually flying off from their refpeClive bodies, one after a- nother; and that thefe furfaces, or thin cafes b 3 ‘¢ that