3059. From this one may conclude how difficult it is for people to be able to put aside fantasies they had acquired for themselves in the life of the body and had confirmed, no matter how very familiar it must have been to them as a matter of knowledge, that there are spirits.
3059. Hence may also be inferred how difficult it is for a man to be able to throw off the phantasies which they had contracted and confirmed in the life of the body, for it could not but be most thoroughly known to these, as a matter of science, that they are spirits.)
3059. Exinde concludi quoque potest, quam difficile sit, ut homo exuere possit phantasias quas in vita corporis sibi acquisiverant, et confirmaverant, utcunque 1
iis scientifice notissimum non potuit non esse, quod spiritus sint.
1 ms. nami