Mphasize the fact that I am speculating, not dogmatizing--that I am speaking from internal evidence, with no…
- Date of account
- Early twentieth century
- Source
- True Ghost Stories
- Reference
- True Ghost Stories · selected passage 99
- Rights
- public_domain
- Language
- English
- Record updated
- 2026-08-24
Record summary
mphasize the fact that I am speculating, not dogmatizing--that I am speaking from internal evidence, with no possibility of corroboration, and that I am perfectly aware that each reader must take this for what it seems to him worth
Published source text
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Source passage
Source text · mention onlymphasize the fact that I am speculating, not dogmatizing--that I am speaking from internal evidence, with no possibility of corroboration, and that I am perfectly aware that each reader must take this for what it seems to him worth. Such being the case, I venture to classify the vision under Class III. Again, to borrow from Mr. Myers, I believe that what I saw may have been a _telepathic impression of the dreams_ (or I should prefer to say '_thoughts_') _of the dead_. If what I saw were indeed veridical or truth-telling--if my readers will agree to admit that what I saw was no mere illusion, or morbid hallucination, or imagination (taking the word in its commonly-accepted sense)--then I believe that my visitor was not a departed spirit, such as it has before now, perhaps, been my privilege to meet, but rather an image as such--just as the figure which, it may be, sits at my dining table is not _really_ the friend whose visit a few hours later it announces, but only a representation of him, having no objective existence apart from the truth of the information it conveys--a thought which is personal to the brain which thinks it.
Historical context
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Modern context
Contextual commentary · mention onlyThe passage can support a history of claims and recurring descriptions. It does not establish a paranormal mechanism, and competing psychological, social and physical explanations remain relevant.
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