Posthumous Humanity: a Study of Phantoms

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Boutigny, ofi'ered an explanation of this prodigy, based upon the particular state of water, the spheroidal state. At the approach of incandescent matter, the liquids contained in the human body suddenly vaporizing, form on the epidermis a layer of aqueous vesicles, which, serving as a screen, arrest the action of the fire. This ingenious hypothesis, based upon the most certain observations of science, has taken rank among the discoveries of modern physics. But is it quite certain that it suffi...ces to explain everything that is observed in these incombustible subjects ? I have seen, for my own part, a Cape negress pass several times a red-hot iron over her arms, legs, tongue, &c., and after, the exhibition I came away with the conviction that any other person, operating under identical circum- stances, would have been horribly burned. More- (W) Shadracli, Meshak, and Abednego also?
203 POSTHUMOUS HUMANITY.
over, trickery was impossible : the bystanders them- selves heated the iron in a brazier, kindled before us, and presented it to the savage.


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