Sympathetic Theater

The material we have decided to treat is of the same nature. For those who, led to the present matter and taught and confirmed by experience itself, have focused their care solely on weighing all the circumstances required for this business on the balance of reason, and have satisfied themselves entirely—after they have known as clearly as those things which are seen with the eyes—that all fraud is far absent from this, they no longer doubt that this matter is most in agreement with the truth. But truly, those who have not yet usurped with their eyes such effects, it is necessary that they also give credit to the authority of those who affirm that they have seen the thing with their own eyes. I could indeed produce more experiments into the middle, of which I am a witness, as a new observer, and of which I was a great part: but just as a certain sure example, approved by unanimous consent, suffices for determining the truth of a thing and the aptitude or potential of existence which is called into doubt: so that I might not produce disgust for you, it will be enough and more for me to have produced at least one thing on this matter upon the stage: but, by Hercules! it will not be of the lowest bench, but from the most illustrious and most proven that ever existed or can exist, and that not only because of the circumstances...