I spoke with certain ones, [saying] that they seem to be carried in carriages and not to believe otherwise than that it is so. And when they were in the carriages and were told that it was a fantasy, also that they imagine themselves endowed with a body, and that they have hands because they feel by touch, then one was saying this is not a fantasy, because he feels his hand, and I saw him touching it. But the hand can be taken from him, and a new one come in its place, in fact many hands can be added to him and he not know but that they are real, and deny that it is a fantasy because he sees and feels them. Hence one was prompted to conclude that it is the same when they think they live by their own life, and whether it is not just as well, since they do not know or imagine otherwise. 1748, 29 Aug.