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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.

II.

Magic

as

Natural Science.

by

Dr Carl du Prel.

Part Two:

Magical Psychology.

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, II, Jena, 1899. New York Public Library, by way of the Internet Archive.

Jena,

Hermann Costenoble.

1899.

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To my friend

Martin Greif

dedicated.

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