We should steer clear of a credulity that accepts ghosts and visions
because some good people testify about them.
A whole ship’s company was thrown into the utmost consternation
by the apparition of the cook who had died a few days before. He
was distinctly seen walking ahead of the ship, with a peculiar
gait by which he was distinguished when alive, through having
one of his legs shorter than the other. On steering the ship
toward the object, it was found to be a piece of floating wreck.
It is not surprizing, therefore, that there are apparently
well-authenticated stories of ghosts who have been seen under
different circumstances by people, and, moreover, by people
of unquestioned mental ability, people of strong mentality
concerning whose integrity and reliability there can be no
question.--EDWIN J. HOUSTON, “The Wonder Book of Light.”
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=Reason, The Real=--See CONFIDENCE, LACK OF.