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A

PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAY

ON

CREDULITY AND SUPERSTITION;

AND ALSO ON

ANIMAL FASCINATION, OR CHARMING.

BY RUFUS BLAKEMAN, M. D.

" It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion
as is unworthy of Him; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely."

LORD Bacon.

NEW YORK :
D. APPLETON & CO., BROADWAY.
NEW HAVEN, -S. BABCOCK.