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The authors of the Conversations-Lexicon, referring to the monkish Lives of the Saints which originated in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, say that the title legend was given to all fictions which make pretensions to truth.
It will be seen hereafter that magnetism produces no effects but these two; that the gift of prophecy supernatural eloquence the transfer of the senses, and the power of seeing through opaque substances, are pure fictions, that cannot be substantiated by anything like proof. M. Deleuze's book produced quite a sensation in France; the study was resumed with redoubled vigour.
We will now briefly notice another objection, somewhat akin to the preceding, and based mainly upon the same and similar fallacies. Multitudes scout as fictions the cruelties inflicted upon slaves, because slaveholders are famed for their courtesy and hospitality.
It may be safely asserted, however, that the story was an invention to be classed with those fictions which made him the murderer of his first wife, a common conspirator against Philip's crown and person, and a crafty malefactor in general, without a single virtue.
Ancient unhealthy and poisonous realities were covered with new appearances. A lie wedded 1789; the right divine was masked under a charter; fictions became constitutional; prejudices, superstitions and mental reservations, with Article 14 in the heart, were varnished over with liberalism. It was the serpent's change of skin. Man had been rendered both greater and smaller by Napoleon.
The Equity whether of the Roman Prætors or of the English Chancellors, differs from the Fictions which in each case preceded it, in that the interference with law is open and avowed.
"You are mistaken, sir," replied Dr. Morgan. "It is not the captain who speaks here, it is his liver. Liver, sir, though a noble, is an imaginative organ, and indulges in the most extraordinary fictions. Seat of poetry and love and jealousy the liver. Never believe what it says. You have no idea what a liar it is! But ahem ahem. Cott I think I've seen you before, sir.
And that was because the English Constitution was, and still is, covered up with a thick husk of legal fictions which long ago ceased to have any vitality.
I have often been so transported by the pleasure of these recollections, as almost to wish that I had been born in the days when the fictions of poetry were believed. Even now I cannot look upon those fanciful creations of ignorance and credulity, without a lurking regret that they have all passed away.
Suppositions without any facts are mere fictions of the imagination, and this we are not indulging in.
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