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By far the greater number, to a very great degree.

Really, that is very alarming!

Sunt geminæ somni portæ. There are two gates through which ghosts find their way to the upper air: fraud and self-delusion. In the latter case, a ghost is a deceptio visûs, an ocular spectrum, an idea with the force of a sensation. I have seen many ghosts myself. I dare say there are few in this company who have not seen a ghost.

I am happy to say, I never have, for one.

We have such high authority for ghosts, that it is rank scepticism to disbelieve them.