The State of the Academy of Sciences at Banza
Mangogul had scarcely quitted the recluses, among whom I left him, when a report was spread through Banza, that the virgins of the congregation of Brama’s Coccyx, spoke by their Toys. This report, to which Husseim’s violent proceedings had given credit, roused the curiosity of the learned. The phenomenon was thoroughly examined and allowed: and the freethinkers began to seek in the properties of matter, the reasons of a fact, which they had at first deemed impossible. The tattle of the Toys gave birth to a great number of excellent works; and this important subject swell’d the collections of the academies with several memoirs, which may be esteemed the utmost efforts of human understanding.