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to be sure. I put an extreme case; for it was necessary that I should leave on the reader's mind no doubt as to the certainty of death without the aid of the Mesmerist--but such symptoms _might_ have appeared--the identical symptoms _have appeared_, and will be presented again and again. Had the Post been only half as honest as ignorant, it would have owned that it disbelieved for no reason more profound than that which influences all dunces in disbelieving--it would have owned that it doubted the thing merely because the thing was a