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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: of Mr. Delepierre's hypothesis, save that furnished by the
apparent testimony of Jeanne's brothers, given at second hand in
the Metz archives. And those who are familiar with the phenomena
of mediaeval delusions will be unwilling to draw too hasty an
inference from this alone. From the Emperor Nero to Don Sebastian
of Portugal, there have been many instances of the supposed
reappearance of persons generally believed to be dead. For my own
part, therefore, I am by no means inclined to adopt the
hypothesis of Jeanne's survival, although I have endeavoured to
give it tangible shape and plausible consistency. But the fact
that so much can be said in behalf of a theory running counter
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