"Disinterment" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... its wonders are again admitted, but explained; the false in it separated from the true; this is its third and last period. And it may be remarked, that society is never safe against the reproduction of a superstition, till it has gone through this third stage (analogous to the disinterment and dissection of a vampyr); till then, it is always capable of "walking" again. But, which is singular, to the end the operation of explaining a superstition is unsafe, that is to say, if you step a quarter ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 • Various |
