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An essay on capacity and genius

to prove that there is no original mental superiority between the most illiterate and the most learned of mankind; and that no genius ... is innate, but solely produced by and dependent on circumstances. Also enquiry into the nature of ghosts, and other appearances supposed to be supernatural.

Also known as An essay on capacity and genius; to prove that there is no original mental superiority between the most illiterate and the most learned of mankind; and that no genius ... is innate, but solely produced by and dependent on circumstances. Also enquiry into the nature of ghosts, and other appearances supposed to be supernatural

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  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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xix, 537 p. 22 cm Half-title: On capacity and genius, and the nature of ghosts

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists and Occultism and esotericism.

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Retained metadata contains “supernatural” in the subtitle, “supernatural” in the alternative title, and “supernatural” in the edition subtitle.

    • “supernatural”· in subtitle
    • “supernatural”· in alternative title
    • “supernatural”· in edition subtitle
  • Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Ghosts”. Retained metadata contains “Ghosts” in the subtitle, “Ghosts” in the alternative title, “Ghosts” in the description, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Ghosts”· via Internet Archive
    • “Ghosts”· via Open Library
    • “Ghosts”· in subtitle
    • “Ghosts”· in alternative title
    • “Ghosts”· in description
    • “Ghosts”· in subject

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to prove that there is no original mental superiority between the most illiterate and the most learned of mankind; and that no genius ... is innate, but solely produced by and dependent on circumstances. Also enquiry into the nature of ghosts, and other appearances supposed to be supernatural.

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1820London : W. Simpkin and R. Marshall; W. Simpkin and R. MarshallEnglish—Public

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: University of California Libraries
  • Digitization sponsor: MSN
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Scanner: iala4
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openlibrary-work:OL16747581W
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