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Chance and the Goblin Tricks

Herbert Silberer · Chance and the Goblin Tricks · 3 of 11

Contents

Inhalt

Contents.Inhalt.

The page numbers of the 1921 edition are replaced by links to the parts of this edition.

Foreword

I. What Do We Call Chance?

II. Chance Influenced: (a) The order is worked in

(b) The order is seen in

III. The Valuation of Chance (Superstition, Gambling, the Law of the Series)

IV. Fate

Literature

Translation © 2026 B. C. P. Statema. The Thinking Press, Kenosha, Wisconsin. All rights reserved.

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