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Rh or only as playful jests with a grain of truth behind. Here are some of the questions and their answers.

These last two answers are very characteristic of Ferrier's point of view in later days. He was above all reasonable — no ascetic who could not understand the temptations of the world, but one who enjoyed its pleasures, saw the humorous side of life, appreciated the aesthetic, and yet kept the dictates of reason ever before his mind. And his ambition to reach the Truth

Thus, like Paracelsus, he aspired.