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THROUGH FINLAND. 273
reader will be able to judge of the light in which I viewed this
fabject. Having fucceeded in our refearches concerning the elec-
trical fluid, and what 1s called galvani/in, I think it not impoffible
but we may difcover fome other fluid, or material fubftance,
which fhall have its particular laws, relations and affintties. ile
of opinion, that in animal magnetifm we meet with appearances
which cannot be traced to the imagination as their caufe, nor in-
deed to any caufe known or ftated by the enemies of this doétrine.
The French academicians themfelves, in their report on animal
magnetifm, fhew, perhaps, that they beftowed upon it neither the
time nor the candour and impartiality which a fubject fo difficult,
and fo much entangled in the grofleft prejudices, had a right to
obtain from them. Upon the whole, I conclude that we are ftill
entirely in the dark as to this unknown caufe, which, though we
cannot as yet affign to it any name or determinate qualification,
is not on that account lefs poffible.
The proficiency of the Baron in the magnetical fcience has not
met with very great fuccefs in making profelytes at Uleaborg :
for though this country is removed from the centre of intelle¢tual
improvement, yet the diffufion of knowledge has been fo univer-
fal, in the courfe of the eighteenth century, that its falutary effects
have been felt even here, and men’s minds are fufficiently en-
lightened to be upon their guard againft the ilufions of impofture.
Bendes the Baron is alone; he is deftitute of that co-operation
which, by working on the fentiments of others, in all times and
places, by continually urging and preffing upon them a fubject
Vou. I. Nn which
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