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as having their origin in the mind
rather in the matter of the human
organism. And were the ordinary
working of mind and heart through
brain and nerve made as clear as
the water-wheel and the mill-stone in
the production of flow, there would
still remain that "night-side
of nature" where dreams, ghosts,
witches, spirits perturbed, and a hundred
abnormal creatures stalk abroad, when
and how, and whence, & why, we know not,
though we know them all, by careful
investigation, to be but projections of
ourselves, the mysterious shadows
of our personality, the strange

[Emblem printed, upside-down, in center of page.]
Bacon & Company
Excelsior Press
San Francisco