In all their formsin the Vedas, in the Neo- Platonists, in Jacob Boehmen, in your Catholic creeds, in Coleridge, and the Germans from whom he borrowed, I have looked at them, and found in them beautiful phantasms of philosophy, . . .

I am, personally, illogical enough to agree with Kant, and to be more convinced by the cumulative weight of the hundreds of cases in 'Phantasms of the Living,' in other sources, in my own circle of acquaintance, and even by the coincident traditions of European and savage peoples, than by the statistics of the Census.

The sight of the normal human life is the best remedy against phantasms like these.

He speaks of the phantasm as past.

He was trying to get the unwonted quaking out of his hands and the memory of the night's heart-dissolving phantasms from before his inner vision.

Fifty phantasms out of the whole occurred during anxiety or presumable anxiety.

Dazzled, amazed, our eyes half-blinded, fail, While sweeps the phantasm past our gliding sail Like as in festive scene, some sudden light Rises in clouds of stars upon the night.

Of course, the shadow in the sunlight does not resemble the phantasm in a dream.