When I was excerpting my observations in numbers 1719, 1720, about spirits and their senses, certain learned men were present at the time whose perception [of the matter] was communicated to me, making me realize that they cannot at all believe that spirits can make use of any of the senses, much less feel pain, fear, terror, their philosophic fantasies having brought on them such darkness. So it is the uneducated who are able to believe. 1748, 30 Sept.