Joseph Grasset

Excerpt from The Marvels Beyond Science, (L'occultisme Hier Et Aujourd'hui; Le Merveilleux Prescientifique): Being a Record of Progress Made in the Reduction of Occult Phenomena to a Scientific Basis When asked to issue a third edition of my former work, "Spiritualism and Science," I thought better to postpone it and undertake instead the present book, "Occultism To-day and Yesterday." The title of the former has been rightly criticized - first, because it was identical with the title of a book that had been issued in 1883 by Mr. Delanne; second, because I did not use the word Spiritualism in its narrow, etymological sense. To serve as a substitute for that title, I have hesitated for the present work between "The prescientifical marvelous" and "Occultism," but have believed that the latter expression sounds the better. It needs a thorough explanation, however, lest it be misunderstood. This is what I have tried to do in the first part of the book. In "Spiritualism and Science," I chiefly examined those manifestations of occultism on which light has recently been thrown. They comprised the occultism of yesterday, and with this the second portion of the present book deals. The occultism of to-day, as discust in the third part of the work, is an amplification of a study which was printed originally in La Revue des Deux Mondes, in November, 1906. The same ideas and conclusions, but with more proofs, will be found here. A clear idea of the scope of the entire work can be promptly gathered by reading the contents and conclusions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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