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naked, and to my eyes very beautiful; but the water was between
me and it, too deep to ford. I had a strong desire to see it nearer,
but was always prevented by the river, which was always high. This
dream ceased years after when I began to model. Altogether, one
may conclude that this-the dream-was not entirely a phantom.
At that time I had no wakeful thoughts of sculpture, nor had I
ever seen anything likely to excite such a dream.
Viewed from whatever angle, this dream is worth thinking
about. Reduce the whole incident to its lowest possible terms,
and consider that the dream fulfilled itself by helping to tum the
dreamer toward his true vocation, yet we must inquire, " How did
it come about and so persistently recur,-that dream of a nude
female figure, that did not seem alive, on some kind of a pedestal
-before he had ever seen sculpture or had his waking attention
called to the subject of sculpture? Was there an influence external
to himself directing him toward his destined career, or
was it his own subliminal consciousness, singularly sagacious
and prescient?
XXXI. SPIRITISTIC PHENOMENA IN THE FAMILY OF
SENATOR TALL MADGE.
Nathaniel P. Tallmadge (1795-1864), United States senator
from 1833 to 1844, governor of the Territory of Wisconsin,
1844-6, etc., wrote a letter to the Spiritual Telegraph, and his
letter is copied in "Modem American Spiritualism," by Emma
Hardinge, New York, 1870, (page 263).
FoND DU LAc, WiscoNSIN.
MESSRS. PARTRIDGE AND BRITTAN:
You have no doubt seen in the public papers the melancholy fate
of our friend Hon. John B. Macy, by the burning of the steamer
" Niagara" near Port Washington, on Lake l\fichigan. He, with
several others, was precipitated from the small boat into the water,
whilst it was being let down at the stern of the steamer. * * ,*
1fr. Macy was drowned on the 24th instant, about four o'clock,
P. l\'1. On the morning of the next day, and before any rumor of
his fate could possibly have reached us, my daughter saw shadows
flitting across her room, which she mentioned to the family as a
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