Excerpt from A History of the Art of Magic: Containing Anecdotes, Explanation of Tricks and a Sketch of the Life of Alexander Hermann

IT would require vast learning, Herculean labor, and a longer period of time than is allotted to the life of man to complete a history of the Art of Magic. Suffice it to say that as many different forms of magic exist as there are nations upon the earth. NO subject, indeed, is more attract ive and instructive than that of magic. It has had its in fluence on almost every phase of human thought; it is found in the fountain-heads from which spring history and civilization.

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