. 281. (15th edition.)

(4) At the date of Faber's conversation with Allen Fenwick, the
(so-called) spirit manifestations had not spread from America over
Europe. But if they had, Faber's views would, no doubt, have remained
the same.

(5) Abercrombie on the Intellectual Powers, p. 278. (15th edition.)

This author, not more to be admired for his intelligence than his
candour, and who is entitled to praise for a higher degree of original
thought than that to which he modestly pretends, relates a curious
anecdote illustrating "the analogy between dreaming and spectral
illusion, which he received from the gentleman to which it occurred,--an
eminent medical friend:" "Having sat up late one evening, under
considerable anxiety for one of his children, who was ill, he fell
asleep in his chair, and had a frightful dream, in which the prominent
figure was an immense baboon. He awoke with the fright, got up
instantly, and walked to a table which was in the middle of the room.
He was then quite awake, and quite conscious of the articles around him;
but close by the wall in the end of the apartment he distinctly saw the
baboon making the same grimaces which he had seen in his dreams; and
this spectre continued visible for about half a minute." Now, a man
who saw only a baboon would be quite ready to admit that it was but an
optical illusion; but if, instead of a baboon, he had seen an intimate
friend, and that friend, by some coincidence of time, had died about
that date, he would be a very strong-minded man if he admitted for the
mystery of seeing his friend the same natural solution which he would
readily admit for seeing a baboon.

(6) See Muller's observations on this phenomenon, "Physiology of the
Senses," Baley's translation, p. 1395.

(7) Sir David Brewster's Letters on Natural Magic, p. 39.

(8) Newton's explanation is as follows: "This story I tell you to let
you understand, that in the observation related by Mr. Boyle, the man's
fancy probably concurred with the impression made by the sun's light
to produce that phantasm of the sun which he constantly saw in bright
objects, and so your question about the cause of this phantasm involves
another about the power of the fancy, which I must confess is too hard a
knot for me to untie. To place this effect in a constant motion is hard,
because the sun ought then to appear perpetually. It seems rather
to consist in a disposition of the sensorium to move the imagination
st