Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development

first edition Hard Cover

1851 · Boston

by Atkinson, Henry George; Martineau, Harriet
Boston: Josiah P. Mendum, 1851. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First American edition. Spine faded, corners a bit rubbed with minimal loss from spine base, two pencil names and date on front endpaper, endpapers faintly foxed. 1851 Hard Cover. xii, 396 pp. Blue cloth, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt. Correspondence between the advocate of mesmerism (i.e., hypnosis), phrenology, and spiritualism, and the woman widely acknowledged to be the first female sociologist, who claimed mesmerism cured her long-running illness. Influential in the Unitarian community, controversial for atheistic rhetoric and call for the abolition of marriage. The two discuss a number of topics, from brain chemistry, the senses, and the nervous system to dreams, knowledge, theology, and superstition. (Inventory #: 2347075)
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