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Excerpt from Popular Home Remedies and Superstitions of the Pennsylvania Germans
But somewhere in the back of my mind. Or perhaps we had better say somewhere in the back of my emo tions, I have a feeling that superstition is the mother of science. I am not at all dogmatic about this and am willing to modify it to say some superstitions are the mother of science. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
