The Spirit Land (Registro nro. 84076)
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | BF |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Emmons, Samuel B. |
| Fuller form of name | (Samuel Bulfinch) |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Spirit Land |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2013 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Source | rdamedia |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2013-07-17 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | E-text prepared by Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http://archive.org) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "The Spirit Land" by Samuel B. Emmons is a treatise on superstitions and their origins, written in the mid-19th century. The author aims to dissect various popular beliefs that have persisted throughout history, revealing the absurdities and dangers of such notions, especially in the context of Christianity. In this work, he addresses figures like witches, ghosts, and demons while advocating for a rational understanding of spiritual matters grounded in the teachings of the Bible. The opening of the work introduces Emmons’ intentions clearly: to demystify the erroneous beliefs that have plagued humanity through the ages. He begins by reflecting on the pervasive influence of childhood tales about giants and spirits, highlighting how these stories cultivate a fear of the supernatural that can lead to social hysteria, as exemplified by the ghost sightings in Waltham, Massachusetts. Emmons emphasizes the importance of reason and knowledge in dispelling these fears and isolating the causes of superstitions, thus setting the stage for a detailed exploration of the roots and repercussions of these misguided beliefs. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
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| Note about original | Original publication data not identified |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Spiritualism |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Occultism -- Early works to 1900 |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43237">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43237</a> |
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