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    ;» . H ^ weprerckar may the philosopher that departedipifts ^ ckbnot rel ^ wih ^ Yimble form however numerous may be the c&stes of Reception , a ^ Wiigb ^ b ody of testioaony to the reality of apparitions hSjS W ^ siys subsisl 6 dj—* -testittiony so various , so distinct , so extensive , as would in no less difileult ^ case have been questioned . If many credoious persons , have sfeen sp e ^| res ^ so have some sceptics ; if many wea k minds have te ^ h tteuDted by shadows , so have not a few strong ones ; if machrteh have be % n fft ^ iiikdi 1 ^ -cN ^ ds to explore the secrets of the grave , many sane have be ^ ii stSktled

    by ghmpstes into the unseen world . Though iridividuartestimony is all that can b 6 obtain fed , ( since there is no satisfactory evidence tf&t tliie satt £ apparition has been seen by two or more persons at one time , ) ticf susjpff ^ ibn ^ bf artifice * no supposition of insanity , will explain one-half of the well-attested cases of spectral appearance . The imagination may haveexafg ^ ated , tWe judgment may have misinterpreted ; but it is unquestionable that ^ tiivct shapes of departed friends have been presented to the bodily eye , and W ^ ll * -

    remembered tones addressed to the ear , while the seer was awake in the broad sunshine , and , at the moment , thinking of nothing less than the person to whom the shape and voice belonged . At lengtn , the question has been met as it deserves . A few strong minds , themselves subjetf to spectral impressions , have had the courage to investigate and publish their own cases , and have thus thrown light on the most mysterious cla ^ s of facts on

    record . When the results of sueh inquiries become generally kiiotrft , it will be matter of as much surprise as grief , that some of the ntoat afflictibg evils of humanity should have had such aa origin : that madness , fTom being presupposed , should have "become real , and that life and its enjoyments should have been forfeited for want of knowing a physical fict wHildh ' thti ^^ bw

    appears no difficulty in ascertaining . ' The common method adopted by the subjects of spectral ill lisionshafe been to make ready to die . Happily a different course wa 3 practised by Nic ^ lar , the philosophical sfeer of Berlin . The first appearance which he beheld was that of a deceased person * It is well for society that he did not imtneScftately If he

    resign himself to death , and leave the world through a rm ^ mke * had forthwith settled his accounts , ordered his corBn ^ ^ d ' lai n down on a sofa to watch his breathing and feel his pulse , * his exj ^ riencp ( f w | ght have served to adorn a tale , but would not have v earthed the , r ^^ dsy aff S ^ ienc ^ Be might have been interesting , as a sentioientajis ^ but n ^ as noty l ; as a philosophical

    hero . His widow might have roarfolted and * -fret * : till she " was prepared to see and follow his " beckoning ghost !; " But lihe iAjfe | to ^ founa it a much better thing to assist in recollecting and recording the facts for the benefit of soc iety > ^» d to he a wife instead of ar widow-. < $ & fe ^ ' c ^ Kes destribiMl Vith similar accuracy are on record that we are compGlW f at * hdmk of ^ fefei ^ ii ^ g

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1830, page 751, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2590/page/23/