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—his own comments on what he was experiencing. Sometimes he voiced his bewilderment in shaky and half-entranced writing; sometimes he made remarks as if the observing scientist asserted himself again—not to doubt the reality of his new life in the other
From The Spiritual Diary. (Original 51⁄4″ wide.)
world, but to study it and make an attempt at explaining the laws that governed phenomena there. It was these remarks that grew and grew, until in 1747, after he had left his job and gone to Holland, he put them into the separate journal, variously known as The Spiritual Diary or, his own word for it, Memorabilia.41
