Contrary to the pre-scientific arts of medicine, astrology and alchemy, the modern sciences promise no miracles. Nevertheless, their real strength and accomplishments are by far superior to those of magic. Where magic boasted, science works. True as this is, the experience of progressive thought was a continuous struggle against the recurrent tendency of human nature, especially among superficially educated people, to discover mystery in anything that, to their mind, appears unusual. The fight science waged against ignorance, superstition and mysticism is not over; as it seems, the fight must be carried on. For some of the newer sciences, like their older predecessors, began in wonder.One of the fields where, unfortunately, much of the ancient magic tenaciously persists is that of hypnotism.
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