The Salem Witchcraft
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Published in New York in 1886, this book is a collection of separate articles: "The Salem Witch", "Salem History of Witchcraft", "The Mystery of the Tablet", "Modern Spiritualism", "Dr. Doddridge's Dream". The purpose of republishing this most interesting review is to illustrate the progress made in the moral, intellectual, and physical sciences. The reader will return with us to a time - not too far - when nothing was known about phrenology and psychology; when men and women are persecuted and even executed for the most painful ignorance and the most terrible superstitions. If we were to go back even further, to the Holy Wars, we would have to find cities and peoples filled with human blood through religious fanaticism and intolerance. Let us thank God that our destiny may plunge into a happier age, that the light of revelation, correctly interpreted with the help of Science, points to the Source of all knowledge, of all truth, of all light.
