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190 · Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas "Aegri Somnia" · 189 192 · Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas The Coral Realm · 193 194 · Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas 198 · Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas The Coral Realm · 197 The Indian Ocean NOW WE BEGIN the second part of this voyage under the seas.
Kant pined to see Swedenborg himself, and waited eagerly for his book, 'Arcana Coelestia. At last he obtained this work, at the ransom, ruinous to Kant at that time, of 7£. But he was disappointed with what he read, and in 'Träume eines Geistersehers, made a somewhat sarcastic attempt at a metaphysical theory of apparitions. 'Velut aegri somnia vanae Finguntur species' is his motto.
But just then, lifted off by the tide's final undulations, the Nautilus left its coral bed at exactly that fortieth minute pinpointed by the captain. Its propeller churned the waves with lazy majesty. Gathering speed little by little, the ship navigated on the surface of the ocean, and safe and sound, it left behind the dangerous narrows of the Torres Strait. "Aegri Somnia"*
He had for some time kept a journal in Latin of the state of his illness, and the remedies which he used, under the title of Aegri Ephemeris, which he began on the 6th of July, but continued it no longer than the 8th of November; finding, I suppose, that it was a mournful and unavailing register. It is in my possession; and is written with great care and accuracy.
Yet in this tale, incongruous and disjointed as the dream of a sick man, velut aegri somnia, he has interspersed some lines, and even whole stanzas, to which the poet or the painter may turn again and again with delight, though the common reader will scarce find them sufficient to redeem the want of interest that pervades the whole.
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