There is a considerable amount of interesting and somewhat recondite, not to say uncanny, information contained in the initial number of the twenty-fourth volume of the "Columbia University Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law." "The Place of Magic in the Intellectual History of Europe" is a theme which in the hands of a William Draper, Henry Lea, or an Andrew White, would yield unfathomed depths of storied wickedness, ignorance, and superstition, all flowing out of the Catholic Church. In the hands of Mr. Thorndike, however, it unfolds no such legend. The term magic lends itself to no process of rigid defining, and so the author allows it to cover beliefs in auguries, omens, divinations, sorcery, necromancy, astrology, alchemy, and other such occult agencies which our wiser age has found to be on the whole highly superstitious and absurd. That such beliefs have existed "semper et ubique" everybody knows. -- "The Ecclesiastical Review," Vol. 34
- ISBN10 0343974002
- ISBN13 9780343974008
- Publish Date 22 October 2018 (first published 8 August 2015)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Franklin Classics Trade Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 106
- Language English