Inaugural Physico-Medical Dissertation on the Magnetism of the Macrocosm and Microcosm

The strong are created by the strong, etc.

And the Eagle does not beget defenseless doves.

To this point relate all the Magnetisms between multiple men, which we see either in natural discord or love, with no prior indication of a deliberate will or spontaneous effect, according to that saying of Martial:

Thus, Magnetisms intervene between parents and children, spouses, brothers, sisters, and even friends joined by blood, so that they perceive dangers to each other, and even death itself, from afar. That this itself is not in the will of man but in a natural power, the Excellent President teaches in §. 72 of the Physiological College; for he says: "The sense of man has the power to pass beyond the body and to act, but not by an animal virtue, which does not follow outside the body, but by a natural one; it is required, therefore, that these be brought into act." Pertaining to this matter is what Tackius writes about himself somewhere: that he can divine when he is desperately desired by those suffering, being always warned by an unusual ringing in his ears. The Magnetism between the living and the dead becomes clear even through the mere trickling of blood or the bleeding of a corpse in the presence of the killer; the natural causes of this have been unraveled by M. Marci in the Restoration of the Philosophy of the Ancients, and Garmannus in the Miracles of the Dead, and Kircher on the Magnetic Art. Examples can be read in Harsdörffer, in his Theater of Lamentable Murder Stories, ch. 129, and Fran. Valeriola, book 2 of observations.

§. 5. The narrowness of the page and the brevity of our undertaking warn me to commemorate some Magnetisms by name alone, such as, for example, those that exist between men and the stars, between them and certain beasts, stones, minerals, and several vegetables, as foreign species. Thus, between brutes themselves, viewed in relation to each other and to other natural species, and between vegetables themselves and others, for instance, stars and metals,