MEMOIR

ON

THE DISCOVERY

OF ANIMAL

MAGNETISM.

MAN is naturally an Observer. From his birth, his sole occupation is to observe, in order to learn how to make use of his organs. The eye, for example, would be useless to him if Nature did not first lead him to pay attention to the slightest variations of which it is susceptible. It is through the alternating effects of enjoyment and deprivation that he learns to know the existence of light and its different gradations; but he would remain in i- The text cuts off mid-word; likely "ignorance."