Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions

Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions is a book written by Samuel Hibbert that explores the phenomenon of apparitions. The book delves into the history of apparitions and attempts to provide a scientific explanation for them. Hibbert discusses various theories and beliefs surrounding apparitions, including religious and cultural interpretations. He also examines the psychological and physiological factors that may contribute to the experience of seeing apparitions. The book includes numerous case studies and anecdotes that illustrate the different types of apparitions people have reported seeing throughout history. Overall, Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions offers a comprehensive and thought-provoking analysis of this fascinating and mysterious phenomenon.1824. Or an attempt to trace such illusions to their physical causes. The plan of this work is as follows. In the first place, a general view is given of the particular morbid affections with which the production of phantasms is often connected. In a second part of this work, Dr. Hibbert's object was to point out that in well-authenticated ghost stories of a supposed supernatural character, the ideas which are rendered so unduly intense as to induce spectral illusions, may be traced to such fantastical objects of prior belief as are incorporated in the various systems of superstition, which for ages have possessed the minds of the vulgar. In the succeeding and far most considerable portion of this treatise, the research is of a novel kind. Since apparitions are ideas equaling or exceeding in vividness actual impressions, there ought to be some important and definite laws of the mind which have given rise to this undue degree of vividness.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.