Note 2 — REPORT
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“Far be it from me,” says Maxwel, “to lead you to improper actions. If from the perusal of my works, you become acquainted with the means of such actions, you will do me the justice not to divulge them.—I have seen,” adds he, “the most incredible effects, and the greatest advantages from a right use of this method. I have also seen infinite evils occasioned by the abuse of it.—Indeed, it is scarcely prudent to treat of these subjects, on account of the dangers that may result from it. If we were to express ourselves in a manner universally intelligible, fathers could never be sure of their daughters, nor husbands of their wives; women would be deprived of their self-government in spite of the most judicious and obstinate resistance.” Maxwel, de medicina magnetica, apud Thouret.