Concurrence  of  testimony,  which  is  so  often  adduced  as  final  proof,  may  prove
nothing  more,  as  is  well  known  to  those  accustomed  to  deal  with  the  unobservant
imaginative,  than  that  one  person  has  told  his  story  a  great  many  times

I  have  heard  thirteen  persons  "  concur  "  in  declaring  that  a  fourteenth,  who
had  never  left  his  bed,  went  to  a  distant  chapel  every  morning  at  seven  o'clock.
I  have  heard  persons  in  perfect  good  faith  declare,  that  a  man  came  to  dine
every  day  at  the  house  where  they  lived,  who  had  never  dined  there  once  ;  that  a
person  had  never  taken  the  sacrament,  by  whose  side  they  had  twice  at  least
knelt  at  Communion ;  that  but  one  meal  a  day  came  out  of  a  hospital  kitchen,
which  for  six  weeks  they  had  seen  provide  from  three  to  five  and  six  meals  a
day.     Such  instances  might  be  multiplied  ad  infinitum  if  necessary.
