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Early Modern · 1693
The Wonders of the Invisible World
Cotton Mather · 1663–1728
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What it is
A defence of the Salem trials written at the court's request, warning against spectral evidence while justifying the convictions it had produced.
Why it lasted
Catalogued because it must be known: an intelligent and pious man's attempt to reason his way through a judicial catastrophe he had helped enable.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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