Quotes from The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia — Samuel Johnson
1709–1784 England
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I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed.
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759)
"Some," answered Imlac, "have indeed said that the soul is material, but I can scarcely believe that any man has thought it, who knew how to think; for all the conclusions of reason enforce the immateriality of mind, and all the notices of sense and investigations of science, concur to prove the unconsciousness of matter.
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759)