A Ghost Story and Others

There are certain beliefs as old as the world, that have encountered
more or less scepticism in all ages, and nevertheless endure to-day,--
beliefs based upon observations so excellently authenticated, and so
strongly interresembling, whether made before Christ or in the present
age of rail-roads and electricity, that the admission of their
testimony in the great trial which metaphysical theories are
undergoing in the court of Common Sense, cannot be refused. We refer
especially to the belief in w...