Mather and the Pardon of Pernambuco
Here was a law which could be put into effect and passed without the man being visible or audible. He gave the sign and the law came out, but how? At that time we had been at a conclave of American Quakers on a conference tour, and we had heard that the measure of substance I had mentioned in 1851-52 had been adopted by some Quakers in New York. We were anxious to meet the Quakers and hear of the result. Soon, however, we got a telegram, and there was our answer. If the law was passed with all the stakes driven in, when the lickspittle brother, giving himself up for dead, was revived all the stakes would be gone. A remarkable experiment! This, however, was not to be depended on if you meant to make the ordinary masses of men see the ordinary extraordinary, a practical, ordinary law. The little trail led to ancient books in which all this was described, and at this I spoke with the man at the bullioner's store. He gave me the names of books by the occult man Mather; they were severa...
