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CHAPTER VIII
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Korinna will appear to him.

Castor has discovered a girl who is her very image.

Your arts will convince him that it is she who speaks to him, for he never heard her voice in life, and all this must rouse his desire to see her again and again.

And thus the skeptic will be convinced, in spite of his own doctrine.

In this, as in every other case, it is the passionate wish that gives rise to the belief." "And when you have succeeded in getting him to this point ?" asked the Syrian, anxiously.
"Then," replied the Magian, "he will help me, with his triumphant dialectics, to win Caesar over to the same conviction; and then we shall be able to satisfy the emperor's desire to hold intercourse with the dead; and for that I count on your power of making voices proceed from any person present." He said no more.


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