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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts

CHAPTER XIV
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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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