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A

PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAY

ON

CREDULITY AND SUPERSTITION;

AND ALSO ON

ANIMAL FASCINATION, OR CHARMING.

BY RUFUS BLAKEMAN, M. D.

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"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. BABСОСК.