The Spiritualist > No.68, December 12th 1873

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HAT AM I? A Popular Introduction to Mental
Philosophy and Psychology. Vol. I. The MECHANISM of MAN
Spirit Forms.—Mr. Coleman on Spirit Forms—Mr. Blackburn on
Spirit Forms 451
Mediumship of a Baby ... ... ... 465
The Dialetical Society.—Spiritualism and its Dangers—Science and
Superstition—Spiritualism and the Churches—Spiritualism and
Insanity—Spiritualism and 'Witchcraft—Facts versus Opinions—
Good and Evil Spirits—Psychic Foice and Unconscious Cerebration
—The Use of the Divining Rod—The Sensations of a Medium—
Spiritualism and Priestcraft 456
Trance Mediumship and Physics ... 459
The Psychological Society of Edinburgh ... 460
Poetry.—Departed! 460
Gross Outrage at-a Spirit Circle 461
Correspondence.—The Identity of the Spirit “ John Watt ” 461
Answers to Correspondents ... 462
Paragraphs:—Mr. Peebles at Home, 455; The Mystery of Edwin
Drood, 455 ; Lecture at Gower-street, 455; The National Associa¬
tion, 462; Spiritualist’s Funeral in New Zealand, 462; Anthropology 463
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Contents.
chap.
1. Introduction.
2. What am I?
3. The Man.
4. How we Grow.
5. How we live.
6. What Life is.
7. The Beginning of Life.
8. The Germ.
9. How we die.
10. How we are Moved.
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16. Of the Evidence of the Senses.
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20. Classification of the Mental
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21. The Mechanism of the Mind:
The Propensities.
22. The Mechanism of the Mind:
The Sentiments Common to
Man with the Lower Animals.
23. The Mechanism of the Mind:
The Sentiments Proper to
Man.
CHAP.
24. The Mechanism of the Mind:
The Intellectual Faculties.
25. The Mechanism of the Mind
The Faculties that perceive the
relations of external objects.
26. The Mechanism of the Mind.
The Reflective Faculties.
27. Of the Memory.
28. How the Machinery of the Mind
works.
29. Of the Will.
30. The Soul—its Dwelling and its
Destiny.
31. Soul—Spirit—Anima.
32. The Argument.
33. Consciousness.
34. Presumptive Proofs.
35. The Natural and the Supernatural.
36. What the Soul is.
37. The Dwelling-place of the Soul.
38. The Shape of the Soul.
39. The Condition of the Soul after
Death.
40. The Outlook of the Soul.
41. The Pre-existence of the Soul.
42. The Dwelling-place of the Soul,
43. The Condition of the Soul.
44. The Mystery.
45. Conclusions.
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