1863. Part One of Two. Howitt explains in the Preface that what he intends by the Supernatural is the operation of those higher and more recondite laws of God with which being yet but most imperfectly acquainted, we wither denominate their effects miraculous, or, shutting our eyes firmly, deny their existence altogether. Contents: An Apology for Faith in the Nineteenth Century; Spiritualists Before the American Development; Manifestations of the Supernatural in German; The Supernatural in Switzerland and France; The Supernatural in the Bible; The Supernatural of the Apocrypha; The Supernatural of the New Testament; The Supernatural in the Ancient Nations; The Supernatural in Assyria, Chaldea and Persia; The Supernatural of Ancient Egypt; The Supernatural in Ancient India and China; The Supernatural in Ancient Scandinavia; The Supernatural in Greece; The Supernatural in Ancient Rome; The Same Faith Continues in All These Nations to the Present Time; The Supernatural Amongst the American Indians; The Supernatural Amongst the Early Fathers; Supernatural of the Neo-Platonists; and The Supernatural of the Roman Catholic Church. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s): 1417948949.