'Here am I, at last!' said Raphael Aben-Ezra to himself.

'Fairly and safely landed at the very bottom of the bottomless; disporting myself on the firm floor of the primeval nothing, and finding my new element, like boys when they begin to swim, not so impracticable after all.

No man, angel, or demon, can this day cast it in my teeth that I am weak enough to believe or disbelieve any phenomenon or theory in or concerning heaven or earth; or even that any such heaven, earth, phenomena, or theories exist--or otherwise....

I trust that is a sufficiently exhaustive statement of my opinions?
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I am certainly not dogmatic enough to deny--or to assert either--that there are sensations....