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"Prose"
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"Male"
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Religion of Author:
"Roman Catholic"
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"An Historical, Physiological and Theological Treatise of Spirits: Apparitions, Witchcrafts, and Other Magical Practices. Containing an Account of the Genii"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Optics"
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Date: 1705
"Natalis Comes says, The Genii or Daemons present us with the Species or Images of those things they would perswade us to, as in a Glass; on which Images, when our Soul privately looks, those things come into our Mind; which, if consider'd with Reason, give us a right determination of Mind."
preview | full record— Beaumont, John (c.1640-1731)