φαν11 [see 11 bis]
Accordingly, when I say that Existential Graphs put before us
moving pictures of thought, I mean of thought in its essence free from
physiological and other accidents. But why, Reader, do you still pester me so
for further elucidation of what I mean by “Thought”? Has not my metaphor
of the onion told you? [Insert here 11 quater.] This one shall be redolent of a different aroma;
so that you shall not be surfeited with monstrous delight!
A soul, as most men rightly think, cannot live without
a body, though it will preserve its identity through all metempsychoses and through all the
oblivia thereto appertaining; whether this body be of that kind
that we can readily comprehend,— I mean the spiritual body,— to the existence
of which the spiritualists at last begin to awaken my torpid intelligence*, or whether
* It was the consideration of the utter inadaptability of the theory of telepathy to explain the
assumed facts that it was framed to explain, that first made me see that spiritualism alone could
explain many of those facts, assuming them to be such. It was not that I had any a priori objection to
telepathy; for on the contrary, it seemed then to me, as it does now, that there must be such a faculty
in some minute degree; and when the whip of one brain-cell is attracted to another cell (and, though no man
has seen it or can as yet see it, Raymon y Cajal’s idea that it does happen is irresistible), what can this be, internally viewed,
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