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Two or three anecdotes which he related are all I can contribute towards a piece of mental history which, if preserved, would have been highly interesting.

The first in point of time as to his taste of mind, was a circumstance which shook his confidence in _materialism_, though it did not lead to his conversion.

It was one of those mental phenomena which he saw to be _inexplicable_ by the doctrines he then held.
"It was as follows: He was called in the course of business into a part of London quite new to him, and as he walked along the street he noticed to himself that he had never been there; but on being shown into a room in a house where he had to wait some time, he immediately fancied that it was all familiar, that he had seen it before, 'and if so,' said he to himself, 'there is a very peculiar knot in this shutter'.