Quarterly Retrospect
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" Doubtless," quoth the author of'Hudibras,' "the pleasure is as great of being cheated as to cheat." Is not this, in fact, the true philosophy of that dallying with the pseudo-marvellous which of late has been so much in vogue ? Credulity, indeed, as Dean Swift happily remarked, is a much more peaceful possession of the mind than Curiosity. It might have been supposed that, after the many exposures of collusion, imposture, and self-deception in connexion with so-called " spirit-mediums," the subject would have been pretty well tabooed by all persons who were desirous to maintain a character for common sense, or who had not recourse to it for the mere purpose of amusement?on the principle of Aristippus, who being desired to resolve a riddle, replied, that it would be absurd to resolve that which unresolved afforded so much
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