[The Book of Dreams and Ghosts by Andrew Lang]@TWC D-Link bookThe Book of Dreams and Ghosts CHAPTER XIV 32/66
Napoleon, Socrates, Pascal, Jeanne d'Arc, Luther were all lunatics.
They had lucid intervals of considerable duration, and the belief in their lunacy is peculiar to a small school of writers. {69a} A crowd of phantom coaches will be found in Messrs.
Myers and Gurney's Phantasms of the Living. {69b} See The Slaying of Sergeant Davies of Guise's. {70} Principles of Psychology, by Prof.James of Harvard, vol.ii., p.612.
Charcot is one of sixteen witnesses cited for the fact. {74} Story written by General Barter, 28th April, 1888.
(S.P.R.) Corroborated by Mrs.Barter and Mr.Stewart, to whom General Barter told his adventure at the time. {75} Statement by Mr.F.G., confirmed by his father and brother, who were present when he told his tale first, in St.Louis.
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