A Blow at Modern Sadducism… by a Member of the Royal Society,
Joseph Glanville. James Collins, 1668.
Fourth edition, lacks final advertisement leaf, contemporary calf, joints splitting [Wing G800], 8vo, James Collins, 1668
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“AND if any thing were to be much admired in an Age of Wonders, not only of Nature (which is a constant Prodigy) but of Men and Manners; it would be to (?) matter of Astonishment, that Men, otherwise witty and ingenious, are fallen into the conceit that there’s no such thing as a Witch or Apparition, but that these are the creatures of Melancholly and Superstition, foster’d by ignorance and design; which, comparing the confidence of their disbelief with the evidence of the things denied, and the weakness of their grounds, would almost suggest, that themselves are an argument of what they deny; and that so confident an Opinion could not be held upon such inducements, but by some kind of Witchcraft and Fascination in the Fancy.” -2nd paragraph
![A Blow at Modern Sadducism… by a Member of the Royal Society,
Joseph Glanville. James Collins, 1668.
Fourth edition, lacks final advertisement leaf, contemporary calf, joints splitting [Wing G800], 8vo, James Collins, 1668
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“AND if any thing were to be much admired in an Age of Wonders, not only of Nature (which is a constant Prodigy) but of Men and Manners; it would be to (?) matter of Astonishment, that Men, otherwise witty and ingenious, are fallen into the conceit that there’s no such thing as a Witch or Apparition, but that these are the creatures of Melancholly and Superstition, foster’d by ignorance and design; which, comparing the confidence of their disbelief with the evidence of the things denied, and the weakness of their grounds, would almost suggest, that themselves are an argument of what they deny; and that so confident an Opinion could not be held upon such inducements, but by some kind of Witchcraft and Fascination in the Fancy.” -2nd paragraph](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxre7wqt7W1qabm59o1_500.jpg)