23 Jan y 1814

Jug. True

Ch.4. Miracles 2

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 Add—devils lodged only to be expelled—but everybody expelled them. 1. Jesus 2. his followers 3. other independents in his name

From the histories of Jesus devils present MS alt. illegible. themselves at every step almost as frequently human beings: the whole country swarms with devils. Men are seen in whose bodies are as so MS orgi. ‘bodies are as so’. many receptacles or lodging-houses provided for the reception of devils: devils in any number find accommodation and apt society together in one such house. Not men only but pigs are found capable of being put to this use. Expelled from the one two footed sort a devil finds immediate lodgment in the quadruped: but in the course of the journey a sort of decomposition or creation or propagation—at any rate a multiplication of devils, takes place. The quantity of diabolic matter that had served for the diabolizing of one man, served somehow or other for the diabolizing of several thousand hogs: in each such hog must have been lodged at least one such devil: whether any and what greater number, and whether in each hog the same, or in different hogs different numbers—these are among the questions for the selection of which no sufficient data are to be found.