{"product_id":"2940013769090","title":"A Ghost Story and Others","description":"There are certain beliefs as old as the world, that have encountered\u003cbr\u003emore or less scepticism in all ages, and nevertheless endure to-day,--\u003cbr\u003ebeliefs based upon observations so excellently authenticated, and so\u003cbr\u003estrongly interresembling, whether made before Christ or in the present\u003cbr\u003eage of rail-roads and electricity, that the admission of their\u003cbr\u003etestimony in the great trial which metaphysical theories are\u003cbr\u003eundergoing in the court of Common Sense, cannot be refused. We refer\u003cbr\u003eespecially to the belief in warnings,--premonitions of death,--\u003cbr\u003ewraiths,--doubles,--all those singular superstitions connected with\u003cbr\u003esudden decease, all those apparitions of inexplicable voices by which\u003cbr\u003epeople at vast distances from home are weirdly informed of the loss of\u003cbr\u003efriends, or relatives, to whom they are particularly attached. An\u003cbr\u003eimmense number of extraordinary books have been written upon this\u003cbr\u003esubject; and an enormous bulk of modern testimony collected in regard\u003cbr\u003eto it,--so much, indeed, that people have long since become more or\u003cbr\u003eless weary of the theme, the more so because every new statement\u003cbr\u003eobtained bears a tiresome resemblance to others familiar from\u003cbr\u003echildhood. Nevertheless, while we have all read about such things,\u003cbr\u003every few of us believe in them; and although there are probably few\u003cbr\u003eadult readers of this paper who have not occasionally met with some\u003cbr\u003eone claiming to have had ghostly experience, there are also few who\u003cbr\u003eare willing to place credence in such assertions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNor does it matter much how generally trustworthy in other respects\u003cbr\u003ethe person who makes the statement may be; in this particular matter\u003cbr\u003eeither his veracity is apt to be doubted, or the soundness of his\u003cbr\u003emental condition called into question. Finally, the numerous\u003cbr\u003escientific explanations of mental and sensory delusions have been\u003cbr\u003ereceived with zeal by the public at large, who find in them a ready\u003cbr\u003eapology for summary condemnation of all weird experiences as totally\u003cbr\u003eunworthy of serious attention. It is possible, folks are apt to say,\u003cbr\u003eit is quite possible such things have appeared to certain persons, but\u003cbr\u003eonly as musical or visual spectra--the results of diseased conditions\u003cbr\u003eof the nervous system.","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070248960240,"sku":"2940013769090","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013769090_p0.jpg?v=1763590048","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013769090","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}