That paralysis of Hamlet's will which followed when the
evidence of two worlds hung in equipoise before him, no one can
possibly understand better than I. For it was exactly similar to my
own condition on that never-to-be-forgotten night when she whom I
lost...
While the marvellous sight fell, or appeared to fall, upon my eyes,
my blood, like Hamlet's, became so masterful that my reason seemed
nothing but a blind and timorous guide. No sooner had the sweet
vision fled than my reason, like Hamlet's, rose and rejected it. It
was not until I became acquainted with the _rationale_ of sympathetic
manifestations--it was not till I learnt, by means of that
extraordinary book of your father's, which seems to have done its
part in turning friend Wilderspin's head, what is the supposed
method by which the spiritual world acts upon the material
world--acts by the aid of those same natural bonds which keep the
stars in their paths--that my blood and my reason became reconciled,
and a new light came to me. And I knew that this would be your case.
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