Excerpt from Hogg's Weekly Instructor, Vol. 4: Numbers 79-104; September, 1846-February 1847 A proof that the objects seen are not exterior, but in the brain, has been brought forward by Esquire] and Selut, in the case of an old man who never sat at table without see ing around him a number of guests dressed in the fashion of the previous century. He had but one eye, the sight of which was extremely weak, covered with a green preserver, and occasionally saw his own image apparently reflected in the glass. Dr Abercrombie mentions a remarkable ia stance of this species of hallucination: an invalid lady, entirely blind, never walked in the streets without seeing a little old woman in a red cloak holding a cane in her hand. This apparition walked before her, but always dis appeared on her return to the house. The hallucinations of sight and hearing are more generally united than other wise. Some years ago a madman named Blake was con fined in Bedlam; he firmly behaved in the reality of his visions; he conversed with Moses and Michael Angelo, and dined with Semiramis; he had considerable talent as a painter and designer, and had made two large volumes of drawings of the spectres which appeared to him. A visiter was one day in his room, when he cried Silence, there's Richard III.' Where do you see him?' inquired the stranger. Opposite ou, on the other side of the table; it is his first visit.' ow do you know him?' My Spirit recognises him, but I cannot tell how; we converse soul to soul by intuition and magnetism.' Spinello painted the fall of the wicked angels, and represented Lucifer in so horrible an aspect that he was seized with terror at his own work, which afterwards was always before his eyes, upbraiding him with the frightful form in the picture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.