LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE VICTORIAN NOVEL
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Attract poles of magnetic force
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Describe the entanglement between man and universe, the vital fluid or life force
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Serve to attract animals for selective breeding, rather like natural selection
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Electrify human beings; he vowed never to use it for therapeutic purposes
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Detailed explanation-1: -Animal magnetism is a healing system devised by Franz Anton Mesmer. It is based on the belief in the existence of a universal magnetic fluid that is central in the restoration and maintenance of health. The first seed for this thought was planted when he coined the term “animal gravitation” in 1776.
Detailed explanation-2: -Animal magnetism is used today to describe a person’s ability to attract others with only their presence. Franz Mesmer first coined it in the 18th century, but he wasn’t referring to people’s charisma. Mesmer was a German doctor who believed animals possessed a natural force that could be used for healing.
Detailed explanation-3: -(It would later be known as mesmerism.) Mesmer believed that good physical and psychological health came from properly aligned magnetic forces; bad health, then, resulted from forces essentially being out of whack. He noticed a treatment that seemed to work particularly well in correcting these misaligned forces.