medical art. Sleep-waking develops the powers of seeing, healing, and poesy. How nobly the ancients understood the inner life; how fully is it indicated in their mysteries?
I know a peasant maiden, who cannot write, but who, in the magnetic state, speaks in measured verse.
Galen was indebted to his nightly dreams for a part of his medical knowledge.
The calumnies spread about Frau H. were many and gross; this she well knew. As one day she heard so many of these as to be much affected by them, we thought she would express her feelings that night in the magnetic sleep, but she only said “they can affect my body, but not my spirit.” Her mind, raised above such assaults by the consciousness of innocence, maintained its tranquillity and dwelt solely on spiritual matters.
Once in her sleep-waking she wrote thus:
| When the world declares of me |
| Such cruel ill in calumny, |
| And to your ears it finds a way, |
| Do you believe it, yea or nay? |
I answered:
| To us thou seemest true and pure, |
| Let others view it as they will; |
| We have our assurance still |
| If our own sight can make us sure. |
People of all kinds, to my great trouble, were
always pressing to see her. If we refused them ac-
