Edward C. Rogers. Philosophy of Mysterious Agents, Human and Mundane or the Dynamic Laws and Relations of Man, embracing the natural philosophy of phenomena styles "Spiritual Manifestations". Boston: John P. Jewett & Co.,1853.
(20 x 13 cm) pp. xii, 336. Rebacked in black cloth, preserving original brown spine, with title as "Philosophy of Mysterious Rappings," author and publisher. Numbers 2864 853 written above chapter oneheading in 19th c or early 20th c hand. Some gapping between gatherings, but strongly bound. Overall GOOD condition.
Rogers provides a skeptical, early-scientific analysis of the 19th-century Spiritualist movement in two parts. Rather than accepting ghosts or supernatural intervention, Rogers argued that spiritualist phenomena—such as table-turning and rapping—were driven by undiscovered physical forces and the nervous system of the human body