UNFOLDING MANY CURIOUS UNKNOWN HISTORICAL FACTS.
Translated from the German of Tschink.
(Continued from [page 235].)
I had not yet recovered from my astonishment at the speech of the Duke, when Alumbrado asked me, after a short pause:
“Then you think it absurd to believe in the possibility of apparitions?”
“A belief that has no firm foundation is absurd.”
“You then think every apparition, however it be shaped—”
“Is delusion, the source of which arises either from external natural causes, or flows from our bewildered imagination, or from both at once.”
“One question more!” the Duke said, “What do you think of the occult wisdom which Hiermanfor is said to have learnt from the Bramins?”
“That it consists in a profound knowledge of physic and natural history.”