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the use of either of these mediums. The figure never produced the least 

 sound nor came within a number of feet of his person, yet he knew that it 

 was a man, that it moved, and in what direction, even that it wore a full 

 beard, which, like the thick curly hair, was partially gray ; also that it 

 was dressed in the style of suit known as 'pepper and salt.' These points 

 were all perfectly distinct and invariable each time. If asked how he 

 perceived them, he will answer he cannot tell, he simply knew it, and so 

 strongly and so distinctly that it is impossible to shake his opinion as to 

 the exact details of the man's appearance. It would seem that in this de- 

 lusion of the senses he really saw, as he has never done in the actual ex- 

 periences of life, except in the first two years of childhood." 



On cross-examining Mr. P. , I could not make out that there was any- 

 thing like visual imagination involved, although he was quite unable to 

 describe in just what terms the false perception was carried on. It seemed 

 to be more like an intensely definite conception than anything else, a con- 

 ception to which the feeling of present reality was attached, but in no such 

 shape as easily to fall under the heads laid down in my text. 



