"A testimony is sufficient when it rests on: 1st. A great number of very sensible witnesses who agree in having seen well. 2d. Who are sane, bodily and mentally. 3d. Who are impartial and disinterested. 4th. Who unanimously agree. 5th. Who solemnly certify to the fact."
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As quoted by H. P. Blavatsky in Isis Unveiled, Vol. I, p. 108, (1877)
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