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[5] Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church, Vol. II, p. 362, American edition.
[6] 1 Kings xiv. 1-7.
[7] It is not intended to intimate that there is no such darker reality as a "possession" that is "demoniac" indeed. It cannot be reasonably pronounced superstitious to judge that there is some probability for that view. At any rate, it is certain that the problem is not to be settled by dogmatic pronouncement. It is certain, also, that the burden of proof rests on those who contend that there can be no such thing. On the other hand, it may be conceded that the cases recorded in the New Testament do not seem to be of an essentially devilish kind. On the general subject of "possession" see F. W. H. Myers's work on Human Personality and Survival after Death, Vol. I. (Longmans, Green & Co., New York and London.) Professor William James half humorously remarks: "The time-honored phenomenon of diabolical possession is on the point of being admitted by the scientist as a fact, now that he has the name of hysterodemonopathy by which to apperceive it." Varieties of Religious Experience, p. 501, note.
[8] See Dictionary of Psychology, art. "Psychical Research."
[9] Dr. Peloubet, Teachers' Commentary on the Acts, 1902.
[10] Dr. Lyman Abbott in The Outlook, February 14, 1903.
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