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Illusions

CHAPTER VI
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It does not matter whether the expectation has arisen by way of another's words or by way of personal inclinations.

A strong wish for a thing will, in an exalted state of mind, beget a vivid anticipation of it.

This subject will be touched on again under the Illusions of Belief.

Here I am concerned to point out that such presentiments are fertile sources of sense-illusion.

The history of Church miracles, visions, and the like amply illustrates the effect of a vivid anticipation in falsifying the perceptions of external things.
In persons of a lively imagination any recent occupation of the mind with a certain kind of mental image may suffice to beget something equivalent to a powerful mode of expectation.


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