EBOOK ATLANTIC MONTHLY ***
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THE
ATLANTIC MONTHLY.
_A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics._
VOL. XVI.--OCTOBER, 1865.--NO. XCVI.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by TICKNOR
AND FIELDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the
District of Massachusetts.
Transcriber's Note: Minor typos have been corrected and footnotes moved
to the end of the article.
SAINTS WHO HAVE HAD BODIES.
All doubtless remember the story which is told of the witty Charles II.
and the Royal Society: How one day the King brought to the attention of
its members a most curious and inexplicable phenomenon, which he stated
thus: "When you put a trout into a pail full of water, why does not the
water overflow?" The savans, naturally enough, were surprised, and
suggested many wise, but fruitless explanations; until at last one of
their number, having no proper reverence for royalty in his heart,
demanded that the experiment should actually be tried.
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