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Notes On Somnambulism.
Such considerations as these help one to realize the conception of the most stupendous of all miracles , the restoration of the dead to life , of which so feAV instances are recorded , and which modern scientific experimentalists have utterly failed in imitating . The case of Colonel Townsend is certainly very
striking . He cannot be said to have died in the first instance , but to have adopted a state of trance , or profound sleep ; the resemblance of which , more especially than of
ordinary sleep , to death , need not be suggested . " I AAill not add another word , " said I , seeing that my companion appeared to consider the termination of my remarks as rather problematical , " except those which Shakspeare ( whom we may quote on almost every variety of topic ) has put into the mouth of the Danish prince . Hamlet , who has a decided
turn for the metaphysical , places before us a proposition , which forms matter of deep speculation for us all : ' For in that sleep of death , vAat dreams may rise AVhen we have shuffled off this mortal coil , —• Must give us pause . "
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Notes On Somnambulism.
Such considerations as these help one to realize the conception of the most stupendous of all miracles , the restoration of the dead to life , of which so feAV instances are recorded , and which modern scientific experimentalists have utterly failed in imitating . The case of Colonel Townsend is certainly very
striking . He cannot be said to have died in the first instance , but to have adopted a state of trance , or profound sleep ; the resemblance of which , more especially than of
ordinary sleep , to death , need not be suggested . " I AAill not add another word , " said I , seeing that my companion appeared to consider the termination of my remarks as rather problematical , " except those which Shakspeare ( whom we may quote on almost every variety of topic ) has put into the mouth of the Danish prince . Hamlet , who has a decided
turn for the metaphysical , places before us a proposition , which forms matter of deep speculation for us all : ' For in that sleep of death , vAat dreams may rise AVhen we have shuffled off this mortal coil , —• Must give us pause . "