Essays and Tales

Joseph Addison

Capitolo 33

same way tightened to think us we satisfy what with in this abstract of
the Indian diary, when we imagine the customs, dressed, and manners
of other countries it is ridiculous and eccentric if theirs don't do
you resemble to those of ours really.



THE VISION OF MARRATON.



His/her of error of Felices. -
LUCAN I.  454.

Felice in their error.

The Americans believe that all the creatures have souls, not only the men
and women but beasts, vegetable no, also the most inanimate
things as escorts and stones.  They believes the same of all the jobs of
art, as of knives, boats, mirrors;  and what, as some of these
things perish, their souls go to another world that is busy
from the ghosts of men and women.  For this reason of theirs they put always
from the dead body of their dead friend an arc and arrows that he is able
uses some souls of them in the other world, as he did of them
wood bodies in this.  How soever absurd such opinion as this
you/he/she can appear, our European philosophers have maintained a lot
notions together as unlikely.  Some of the followers of Plato, in
particular, when they speaks of the world of the ideas, I/you/he/she entertain us with
substances and beings anybody less eccentric and unreal.  Many
Aristotelians has spoken unintelligibly likewise as of them
substantial forms.  I will only quote an example Albertus Magnus that, in
his/her dissertation on the magnetite, observing that fire want
destroys his/her magnetic virtues, it tells us that him taken particular
notice of one as it placed burning among a carbons heap that burns, and
what he perceived a certain blue vapor to rise from him, what him
believed it would be the substantial form that is our Indian Of the west,
sentence, the soul of the magnetite.

There is a tradition among the Americans that one of them
farmers came down in a vision to the great receptacle of souls,
or, as we call here him to us, to the other world;  and what on his/her return
he gave an account to his/her friends separate of all among which he has seen
those regions of the corpse.  A the friend of mine, who I previously have
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