Light is ponderable by its heat, which, by penetrating bodies, increases their volume; and certainly electricity is only too tangible.

We have condemned things themselves instead of blaming the imperfection of our instruments." "She sleeps," said Minoret, examining the woman, who seemed to him to belong to an inferior class.
"Her body is for the time being in abeyance," said the Swedenborgian.
"Ignorant persons suppose that condition to be sleep.

But she will prove to you that there is a spiritual universe, and that the mind when there does not obey the laws of this material universe.

I will send her wherever you wish to go,--a hundred miles from here or to China, as you will.

She will tell you what is happening there." "Send her to my house in Nemours, Rue des Bourgeois; that will do," said Minoret.
He took Minoret's hand, which the doctor let him take, and held it for a moment seeming to collect himself; then with his other hand he took that of the woman sitting in the arm-chair and placed the hand of the doctor in it, making a sign to the old sceptic to seat himself beside this oracle without a tripod.