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… of both a conscious and an unconscious desire to recover the atmosphere of magical and charismatic sociability. People > Science People > Art and Literature Keywords Health Irrational Crowd Nature Religion Supernaturalism In 1666 Valentine … a glimpse into the profound and secret learning of the alchemists — who were not all, it should be said, unenlightened pseudoscientists. Some of them accidentally made discoveries about interactions between chemical compounds in their quest … the scientific materialism of the early seventeenth century. Far from being antithetical, science and spiritualist pseudo-science pursued similar concerns: the commitment to truth, the recognition of universal law, belief in the unity …