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It is common to both gods and devils — the pure intellect — but it 88 A PLEA FOR DREAMS, APPARITION'S, Ac.
is not the soul. It is well to reason clearly — it is part of man to do so, but to only reason is impish.
Eeason should take the aliment craved by each of the other faculties, and judge of its appropriateness, but why she should starve the imagination, and call it ill names, it would be difficult to conceive. It is as much a part of a true man, ay, and the best part too, as reason herself....
I confess I am willing to employ my reason to confirm my imagination. I do doubt, and yet long to believe, I look about for testimony — I am ready to receive authority — instead of reply- ing to some thrilling story with the impertinent, puerile, and conceited — " I am not superstitious," I desire to be so, in the best sense of the term, and only regret the meagreness of my own experience. Yet, that there is trvth in these things, is evident from the universal faith in them. True, the vulgar have loaded them with childish and terrific images, but the subject admits the latter element, and the former must be imputed to the weakness of untutored thought.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It is common to both gods and devils — the pure intellect — but it 88 A PLEA FOR DREAMS, APPARITION'S, Ac.
is not the soul. It is well to reason clearly — it is part of man to do so, but to only reason is impish.
Eeason should take the aliment craved by each of the other faculties, and judge of its appropriateness, but why she should starve the imagination, and call it ill names, it would be difficult to conceive. It is as much a part of a true man, ay, and the best part too, as reason herself....
I confess I am willing to employ my reason to confirm my imagination. I do doubt, and yet long to believe, I look about for testimony — I am ready to receive authority — instead of reply- ing to some thrilling story with the impertinent, puerile, and conceited — " I am not superstitious," I desire to be so, in the best sense of the term, and only regret the meagreness of my own experience. Yet, that there is trvth in these things, is evident from the universal faith in them. True, the vulgar have loaded them with childish and terrific images, but the subject admits the latter element, and the former must be imputed to the weakness of untutored thought.
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