Natural Causes And Supernatural Seemings, By Henry Maudsley
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II faut savoir se detacher de tout ce qu'on peut perdre, ne s'attacher absolument qu'a l'eternel et a l'absolu et savourer le reste comme un pr§t, ui> usufruit." (Henri Frederic Amiel, vol. i. p. 3.) 274 NATURAL CAUSES AND SUtEENATUEAL SEEMINGS. evolution of the savage's cruder opinion that in dreaming the spirit leaves the person's body, coming back to it when he awakes ; not coming back to it at all when he dies, but flitting dismally in ghost-like disconsolateness about the scenes of its for...mer joys and sorrows. Second, the method is uncertain and useless : uncertain, because the truth of its results rests entirely upon the authority of the individual, who may be misled himself, or may knowingly mis- lead ; useless, because this possible vitiation renders it impossible ever to know when to depend upon it, seeing that there is no common measure by which to appraise its differing results in the hands of dif- ferent persons. The perplexed inquirer is very much in the position of a belated traveller, who, about to cross some vast waste of unknown country, should appeal for assistance to a number of clamorous guides, not one of whom had ever set foot in the ■country, but each one of whom professed, by looking into a special magic crystal of his own, to be able to see and to trace clearly the right path through it.
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