The Anaesthetic Revelation: and the Gist of Philosophy

By Benjamin Paul Blood

This once famous essay by B. P. Blood may be the earliest recorded description of the recreational use of nitrous oxide and is still appreciated in certain niche communities today.

This edition has been transformed from the small, blurry, photocopied PDF version available online to a fully digitized, updated, modern format for you to read with ease. This edition was read manually and compared word for word with the original. Some of the outdated spelling was lightly updated or edited from the original, some was left as is.

Now you can read this interesting essay comfortably on your e-reader adjusting the font size and dark mode as necessary or accessing the dictionary with ease. Or if you chose paperback you get it in a comfortable size format with large print most readers should have no problem with. Your purchase helps us continue to make more works like this available to people. Thanks.

To be honest Blood wrote in quite a dense, even convoluted, way. Yet it’s clear to see that here was a man of great intellect and one who thought very deeply about the nature of what is.

It’s worth noting that the best and clearest part of the book is the second section. A lot of people might be put off by the dense discussion Blood goes into, in what could be described as an introduction to the main body of the text, but it doesn’t really add anything new as such, it’s more a commentary on the actual description of the experience at the end of the work.

It’s not really separated as a chapter in the original, it just has a sub-heading, so I left it like that. It might be worth reading the second part first and then you can dive into his denser metaphysical thoughts and statements at the beginning.

We still sell our easy-reading editions at very reasonable prices. Enough to keep our business going but also aware of your pocket.

We publish in both paperback and eBook formats. Select titles are being published as audiobooks also.

If you are interested in reduced price bulk orders, then please get in contact via email at the back of the book.

CrossReach 2020

[1] If not famous then it had been made, at least, well known by William James’ enthusiastic 1874 endorsement of it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: CrossReach Publications
• Release date: Jun 8, 2020

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THE

ANAESTHETIC REVELATION

AND

THE GIST OF PHILOSOPHY.

BY

Benjamin Paul Blood.

AMSTERDAM, IN NEW YORK, AMERICA.

1874.

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This once famous essay

¹ by B. P. Blood may be the earliest recorded description of the recreational use of nitrous oxide and is still appreciated in certain niche communities today.

This edition has been transformed from the small, blurry, photocopied PDF version available online to a fully digitized, updated, modern format for you to read with ease. This edition was read manually and compared word for word with the original. Some of the outdated spelling was lightly updated or edited from the original, some was left as is.

Now you can read this interesting essay comfortably on your e-reader adjusting the font size and dark mode as necessary or accessing the dictionary with ease. Or if you chose paperback you get it in a comfortable size format with large print most readers should have no problem with. Your purchase helps us continue to make more works like this available to people. Thanks.

To be honest Blood wrote in quite a dense, even convoluted, way. Yet it’s clear to see that here was a man of great intellect and one who thought very deeply about the nature of what is.

It’s worth noting that the best and clearest part of the book is the second section. A lot of people might be put off by the dense discussion Blood goes into, in what could be described as an introduction to the main body of the text, but it doesn’t really add anything new as such, it’s more a commentary on the actual description of the experience at the end of the work.

It’s not really separated as a chapter in the original, it just has a sub-heading, so I left it like that. It might be worth reading the second part first and then you can dive into his denser metaphysical thoughts and statements at the beginning.

We still sell our easy-reading editions at very reasonable prices. Enough to keep our business going but also aware of your pocket.

We publish in both paperback and eBook formats. Select titles are being published as audiobooks also.

If you are interested in reduced price bulk orders, then please get in contact via email at the back of the book.

CrossReach 2020

The Anaesthetic Revelation.

By what follows I rather hope to signalize than purpose to define a discovery—unutterable by any, yet accessible to all, and of singular interest if not of novel instance—which has been usual with me for now nearly fourteen years. I have often attempted an account of it, and still have happily deferred publication, warned by the fate of philosophers, which was ever to have published too soon at last. But weary of reticence, I at length resign to that course of nature wherein every conceit of the ultimatum has come to be corrected in turn as but a stage of growth. I am now forty years old, as men reckon, and doubting that I shall ever be better able to forestall my critical advantage, and indulging a scruple at longer delay lest by some adventure this matter should altogether die