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One must never live only through the spirit of the times. He must accept the centuries and world encoded within.

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Magic as Natural Science.

I.

Magic

as

Natural Science.

by

Dr Carl du Prel.

Part One:

Magical Physics.

Through its incredibility truth escapes being known.†I

Heraclitus.

The publisher's device of Hermann Costenoble: a coat of arms with a crested helm inside a wreath of laurel and oak, on a ribbon reading "Gegründet 1850"
Die Magie als Naturwissenschaft, I, Jena, 1899. New York Public Library, by way of the Internet Archive.

Jena,

Hermann Costenoble.

1899.

All rights under the law of 11 June 1870 reserved, in particular the right of translation into foreign languages.

To my friend

Dr Richard Wedel

dedicated.

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