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... insanity it seems that the abstinence is better tolerated . In the brute creation fast- ing is more endurable . Müller says , referring to Tiedemann , that salamanders , tortoises , and gold fish may be kept for years without food ...
... insanity it seems that the abstinence is better tolerated . In the brute creation fast- ing is more endurable . Müller says , referring to Tiedemann , that salamanders , tortoises , and gold fish may be kept for years without food ...
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... who stand on precipitous cliffs to cast themselves down . This seems suggested by a kind of insane impulse , which is dreaded by the very person who indulges it . can be no doubt ; nor is real insanity so 128 THE HUMAN MIND CONSIDERED.
... who stand on precipitous cliffs to cast themselves down . This seems suggested by a kind of insane impulse , which is dreaded by the very person who indulges it . can be no doubt ; nor is real insanity so 128 THE HUMAN MIND CONSIDERED.
Page 145
... insanity , and the elegant Charles Lamb probably escaped from his sister's fate only by the necessities of his own position . Whitbread , Romilly , London- derry , and Calcraft , put an end to their own existences ; but the list is too ...
... insanity , and the elegant Charles Lamb probably escaped from his sister's fate only by the necessities of his own position . Whitbread , Romilly , London- derry , and Calcraft , put an end to their own existences ; but the list is too ...
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... insanity . " No doubt , " says he , " the same causes which in a strong degree produce madness , may , in a lower , increase the natural powers of the mind . " High cultivation and extraordinary talents are not in themselves the certain ...
... insanity . " No doubt , " says he , " the same causes which in a strong degree produce madness , may , in a lower , increase the natural powers of the mind . " High cultivation and extraordinary talents are not in themselves the certain ...
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... insanity are not perhaps the most ingenious , fertile , or ima- ginative . The more brilliant mind which sees relations not perceptible to others — the asso- ciations of which are not too strong and constant to forbid erratic flights ...
... insanity are not perhaps the most ingenious , fertile , or ima- ginative . The more brilliant mind which sees relations not perceptible to others — the asso- ciations of which are not too strong and constant to forbid erratic flights ...
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