The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1845-11-13
For the Voice of Freedom.

Agents, Brandon.
For the Voice of Freedom.
Exposition of an Animal Masnetixer.
alias
DR.. MORON, SHOWING some OF THE
FRAUDS AND DECEpTIoNs THAT HAVE
BEEN PALMED OFF UPON THE PUBLIC IN
THE NAME OF SCIENCE.
To The Public The above named DR..
| A. Moron, who has been known as a
lecturer upon astronomy, for several years,
and who has Iectured in many of the large
towns and cities, 10 various paris of the
United States, has of late, seen fit to turn
his attention, 10 the subject Of "animat
magnetism" and has been giving lectures
upon it, accompanied with experiments 10
illustrate its truth, in several places in YER
mont and New York. The probability
ia, that those who thought his experiments
were genuine, were deceived, Those
who took the DR.. to be an honest and up
right man, lover of truth, of science, Of
goodness, morality and religion, as he
proteSsed to be, were. undoubtedly most
wofuIly deceived. Those who considered
the experiments which he palmed off in
the name Of science, as a "well adlusted
and systematic piece OF deception, were
without doubt, correc, in their conclusions
My reasons for entertaining the thoughts
expressed are as follows. The young fell
low that Morron had with him for sub
lect. told me that it was a concerted plan
between himself and Morton, TO deceive,
that he was always awake when the ex.
perlmen,s were performed-lhat Moron
knew he was awake, and that neither of
them believed in the truth of any Of the
phenomena that had been known as tines.
mer;c" Sc. He farther stated to me that
they had regular syslem-had it writ.
len out-that it covered over several sheets
Of paper, and that they practiced together,
share of The time, privately, for several
weeks, in learning 1t. He then disclosed
10 me the system, and from The notes which
| took of it, at The time, with my pencil,
and from memory, 1 will cndeavor TO dis
close and make plain, the same, to the
public. The principle experiments, which
he gave, We're in what he called clairvoy.
ance. After putting his subject into the
pretended sleep, he would bIindfoId him,
and cause him to give description of
whatever object he held behind him. This
he would do very accurately. The fol,
lowing will show how he was enabled 10
give those desert ptions. Each object or
thing that would be likely to he handed in
for description, as knife, lancet, loo,h>
pick. pencil. spec,acles, &c. was designa-
ted by particular phrase, which phrase
Moron would use in making some remark
to his audience, and, thereby convey an
idea of the thing to be described, to his
subject. The phrase. We see many
things I" nature" signifed lancet. III
would seem at first vicw," knife. 81
cannot tsHohy 1t u.s." tooh-pick. "Fs,C
things appear more mysterious,' pencil.
II cannot explain The Jaet' watch
"lhordly think he can teH," a fsh,hook.
According TO the Msory," key. 1T
0oaId seem impossible" speciacles.-
There can be no doubt" money. To
designate VIVA! kind of money, whether
paper or other money, different phrase
was used To tell the amount of money
handed IN, differen. questions were used,
each question denoing given amount
Thus the question, Hon. much is it ?"
invariably meant one dollar. "HoV much
is IL aOorthF' two dollars. What is as
vaiue?" three dollars. "Can you tell
how mueh!' five dollars. "TsH Aow
much" len dollars. This will give the
reader an idea Of The system. Now sup.
pose any of the above named things, or
any other for which they had a phrase, 10
be handed in for the subject to describe -
Suppose it 10 be knife. Mr. Moron hen
ma kes some remark to hiS oudienca and
includes with what he says the phrase,
" II aOOuld seem al first v5ea0." He then