PHANTOM WORLD:
Reading edition
THE HISTORY
AND
PHILOSOPHY OF SPIRITS, APPARITIONS,
&c. &c.
FROM THE FRENCH OF AUGUSTINE CALMET.
WITH A PREFACE AND NOTES
BY THE
REV. HENRY CHRISTMAS, M.A., F.R.S., F.S.A.,
LIBRARIAN AND SECRETARY OF SION COLLEGE.
Quemadmodùm multa fieri non posse, priusquam facta sunt, judicantur; ita multa quoque, quæ antiquitùs facta, quia nos ea non vidimus, neque ratione assequimur, ex iis esse, quæ fieri non potuerunt, judicamus. Quæ certè summa insipientia est.—Plin. Hist. Nat. lib. vii. c. 1.
TWO VOLUMES IN ONE.
PHILADELPHIA: A. HART, LATE CAREY & HART.
1850.
PHILADELPHIA:
T. K. AND P. G. COLLINS, PRINTERS.
TO
HENRY JAMES SLACK, Esq., F.G.S.
&c. &c. &c.
My dear Henry—
I inscribe these volumes with your name to record a friendship which has lasted from our infancy, taint suspicion, and darkened by no shadow.
So long as eminent talents can challenge admiration, varied and extensive acquirements command respect, and unfeigned virtues ensure esteem and regard, so long will you have no common claim to them all; and none will pay the tribute more gladly than your affectionate
Friend and Cousin, HENRY CHRISTMAS.
Sion College, March, 1850.