Note 116 — Chapter IV
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In one of the silliest of modern effusions, the ‘Night Side of Nature,’ where black magic is traced to the power of the will, we read: ‘It is extremely absurd to suppose that statutes were created to suppress a crime which never existed.’ The crime did exist, and does exist, amongst the ignorant and barbarous: the light of science, of course, is an efficient exorciser.