Excerpt from Herr Paulus: His Rise, His Greatness,& His Fall
The first edition of "Herr Paulus" revealed a very astonishing, unexpected, and, I think, an unprecedented fact. From certain letters which were sent to me privately, and from certain observations made by various reviewers in sundry papers, I have learned that the English people have entirely forgotten the whole subject of Mesmerism, or Animal Magnetism. This mysterious Force, which has been proved over and over again to be as real and as inexplicable as any of the Forces which are found to govern matter, which has been made the subject of innumerable controversies, on which a whole body of literature has been written, is now, after some thirty years of comparative neglect in this country, utterly forgotten. A Force which will enable one man to control another so that he shall make him walk, sit, lie, write, read, think, or feel exactly as the controller orders: a Force which, when it can be applied, is an anaesthetic under whose influence a patient can endure, painlessly and unconsciously, the most terrible operations; which has engaged the attention of the greatest scientific minds; from which so much was once expected: this has been so utterly forgotten that people not generally considered ignorant have learned to class it among the common cheats and juggleries of the professional medium.
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