[1] Vita, pp. 143b; 149b, 159b; 153a.
[2] Ibid. p. 153c.
[3] Ibid. pp. 129c, 134a.
[4] I have already traced the steps in the growth of this legend. It is no doubt this element in the biography which irritated John Wesley, the man of absolute judgments; although he himself, with shrewd good sense, indicates its possible secondary origin. “I am sure this was a fool of a Saint; that is, if it was not the folly of her historian, who has aggrandized her into a mere idiot” (Journal, ed. P. L. Parker, London, 1903).
[5] Vita, pp. 127c, 143b, 144b.
[6] Life, tr. by D. Lewis, London, ed. 1888, pp. 27, 420.
[7] Existence de Dieu, I, 1, 31: Œuvres, ed. Versailles, 1820, Vol. I, p. 51.
[8] Pierre Janet, Automatisme Psychologique, ed. 1903; Etat Mental des Hysteriques, 2 vols., 1892, 1893. Hermann Gunkel, Die Wirkungen des heiligen Geistes, Göttingen, 1899. Heinrich Weinel, Die Wirkungen des Geistes und der Geister, Freiburg, 1899. William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, London, 1902.
[9] Pierre Janet, op. cit. Alfred Binet, Les Altérations de la Personnalité, Paris, 1902. M. Th. Coconnier, L’Hypnotisme Franc, Paris, 1897.
[10] W. James, op. cit., especially pp. 1-25. H. Weinel, op. cit., especially pp. 128-137; 161-208. Bernouilli, Die Heiligen der Merowinger, Tübingen, 1900, pp. 2-6. B. Duhm, Das Geheimniss in der Religion, Tübingen, 1896.