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I will conclude this chapter with the following extract from “Lockhart’s Life of Scott:”

Date of account
First published 1848
Source
The Night-Side of Nature; Or, Ghosts and Ghost-Seers
Reference
The Night-Side of Nature; Or, Ghosts and Ghost-Seers · selected passage 119
Rights
public_domain
Language
English
Record updated
2026-08-24

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e that fluent, subtle kind of matter, called by us imponderables, which are capable of penetrating all substances; and unless there be no visible body at all, but only the will of a disembodied spirit acting upon one yet in the flesh (in which case it were as easy to impress the imagination with a clothed figure as an …

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e that fluent, subtle kind of matter, called by us imponderables, which are capable of penetrating all substances; and unless there be no visible body at all, but only the will of a disembodied spirit acting upon one yet in the flesh (in which case it were as easy to impress the imagination with a clothed figure as an unclothed one), we must conclude that this ethereal flexible form, whether permanent or temporary, may be held together and retain its shape by the volition of the spirit, as our bodies are held together by the principle of life that is in them; and we see in various instances, where the spectator has been bold enough to try the experiment, that though the shadowy body was pervious to any substance passed through it, its integrity was only momentarily interrupted, and it immediately recovered its previous shape.

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