If a vision revealed Hallam in bodily presence as of old, he would doubt
its reality, and ascribe it to "the canker of the brain." If the
apparition spoke of the past, he would still call it only "a wind of
memory" in himself. Even if it promised what afterwards came true, he
would account it to be merely a presentiment--
"such refraction of events
As often rises ere they rise."[65]