1515. Moreover, they also said that a different kind of spirits came to them as well, in troops, but they only wanted to find out how things were, and nothing more. They even say these spirits are not insane, but only want to know things, and beyond that, do not try to put their deeper knowledge to any use. So they are surprised that there are such spirits. These spirits are those from the planet Mercury, previously called inward sensation [1415-35, 1441-59]. However, the spirits of Saturn do not reprove them.
They also told that the inhabitants of that planet are small, and [as described] by someone who had been allowed to see them, hardly taller than my thighs; yet they are stout.* * This unnumbered paragraph is scored by heavy vertical lines, and appears to be rewritten below as number 1519.
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