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St. Augustine on Clairvoyance, by J. E. B. Mayor 511
Edward Gibbon, Father and Son 511
Bohn's "Ordericus Vitalis" 512
A Curious Exposition 512
MINOR NOTES:--Inscription--Antiquarian Documents--Bishop Watson's Map of Europe in 1854--Extracts from the Registers of the Bishops of Lincoln--Marston and Erasmus--Puzzle for the Heralds 513
QUERIES:--
Sepulchral Monuments 514
Queries on South's Sermons, by the Rev. W. H. Gunner 515
MINOR QUERIES:--Norwich, Kirkpatrick Collection of MSS. for the History of--Corbet--Initials in Glass Quarries-- Church Service: Preliminary Texts--The Spinning-machine of the Ancients--View of Dumfries--"To pass the pikes"-- May-day Custom--Maydenburi--Richard Fitz-Alan, ninth Earl of Arundel--French Refugees--"Dilamgabendi"--Mr. Plumley--Designation of Works under Review--North-west Passage--Fountains--Pope and John Dennis 515
MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--The Irish at the Battle of Crecy--King of the Isle of Wight--Theodore de la Guard--Back--Broom at Masthead 517
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The Advice supposed to have been given to Julius III., by B. B. Woodward, &c. 518
Lord Rosehill 519
Major André 520
The Terminations "-by" and "-ness," by Wm. Matthews, &c. 522
Newspaper Folk Lore, by Edward Peacock 523
Ventilation, by T. J. Buckton 524
PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--History of Photographic Discovery--Photographic Cautions--A Query respecting Collodion--The Céroléine Process--Mr. Fox Talbot's Patents 524
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Notes.
ST. AUGUSTINE ON CLAIRVOYANCE.
Dr. Maitland, in his valuable _Illustrations of Mesmerism_, has not, I think, noticed an important passage in St. Augustine's treatise, _De Genesi ad litteram_, l. XII. c. 17. §§ 34. _seq._, in which, after saying that demons _can read men's thoughts_, and know what is passing at a distance, he proceeds to give a detailed account of two cases of _clairvoyance_. The whole is written with his usual graphic power, and will well reward the perusal. I must content myself with a brief outline of the facts.
1. A patient, suffering from a fever, was supposed to be possessed by an unclean spirit. Twelve miles off lived a presbyter, with whom, in mesmerist phraseology, he was _en rapport_. He would receive no food from any other hands; with him, except when a fit was upon him, he was calm and submissive. When the presbyter left his home the patient would indicate his position at each stage of his journey, and mark his nearer and nearer approach. "He is entering the farm--the house--he is at the door;" and his visitor stood before him. Once he foretold the death of a neighbour, not as though he were predicting a future event, but as if recollecting a past. For when she was mentioned in his hearing, he exclaimed, "She is dead, I saw her funeral; that way they carried out her corpse." In a few days she fell sick and died, and was carried out along that very road which he had named.
2. A boy was labouring under a painful disorder, which the physicians had vainly endeavoured to relieve. In the exhaustion which followed on his convulsive struggles, he would pass into a trance, keeping his eyes open, but insensible to what was going on around him, and passively submitting to pinches from the bystanders (_ad nullam se vellicationem movens_). After awhile he awoke and told what he had seen. Generally an old man and a youth appeared to him; at the beginning of Lent they promised him ease during the forty days, and gave him _directions by which he might be relieved and finally cured_. He followed their counsel, with the promised success.
Augustine's remarks (c. xviii. § 39.) on these and similar phenomena are well worth reading. He begs the learned not to mock him as speaking confidently, and the unlearned not to take what he says on trust, but hopes that both will regard him simply as an inquirer. He compares these visions to those in dreams. Some come true, and some false; some are clear, others obscure. But men love to search into what is singular, neglecting what is usual, though even more inexplicable; just as when a man hears a word whose sound is new to him, he is curious to know its meaning; while he never thinks of asking the meaning of words familiar to his ear, however little he may really understand them. If any one then wishes for a satisfactory account of these strange phenomena, let him first explain the phenomena of dreams, or let him show how the images of material objects reach the mind through the eyes.
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EDWARD GIBBON, FATHER AND SON.
Gibbon mentions in his _Memoirs_ (edit. 1796, p. 18.), that in 1741 his father and Mr. Delmé successfully contested Southampton against Mr. Henly, subsequently Lord Chancellor, but that, after the dissolution in 1747, he was unable or unwilling to maintain another contest, and "the life of the senator expired in that dissolution." Not so the hopes of the senator, as will appear from the following extract from a letter, dated "Beriton, January 27, 1754:"
"I received the favour of your letter according to the time you promised. As Lord M---- has promised his own votes, I find there is nothing to be done: strange behaviour, sure! But there seems to be such infatuation upon this poor country, that even a good Catholic shall join with a Dissenter to rivet on her chains. There are several of the Independents would have me stand it out, but I would not on any account, for I find it would make great dissensions, and even several of Lord M----'s fagots and tenants would vote against him; and another thing, it would lessen him in the opinion of a _great many people_ to have him making interest for the two _present worthy candidates_ against me. I shall therefore, upon his account, give over all thoughts of standing; and I hope it may give me some little more credit and merit with him against another election, especially if you would _be so good as to improve it for me_."
The following is of far greater interest--full of character. How well it illustrates the paragraph in the _Memoirs_ (pp. 82-3.):
"My stay at Beriton was always voluntary ... I never handled a gun, I seldom mounted a horse; and my philosophic walks were soon terminated by a shady bench, where I was long detained by the sedentary amusement of reading or meditation."