FOOTNOTES
[1] I cannot deny that another principle, afterwards to be explained, may have been additionally in operation in this interesting case.
[2] Zschokke told a friend of mine at Frankfort, in 1847, shortly before his death, which took place at an advanced age, that in the latter years of his life his seer-gift had never manifested itself.
[3] The following anecdote has no conceivable right to be introduced on the present occasion; but I had it on the same authority, and it is a pity it should be lost. As our fleet was bearing down upon the enemies’ line at Trafalgar, Nelson paced the quarter-deck of the Victory with Sir Thomas Hardy. After a short silence, touching his left thigh with his remaining hand; Nelson said, “I’d give that, Hardy, to come out of this."
[4] The reader who wishes to pursue this subject farther, will find it expounded, in connexion with a large body of collateral facts, in my work entitled The Nervous System and its Functions. Parker, West Strand: 1842.
[5] Many writers employ the term somnambulism to denote indiscriminately several forms of trance, or trance in general. I prefer restricting it to the peculiar class of cases commonly known as sleep-walking.