...its original in very sober and rational minds, and wherein it consists. 4. A degree of madness. — I shall be pardoned for calling it by so harsh a name...that opposition to reason deserves that name, and \s really madness ; and there is scarce a man so free from it but that if he should always, on all...

...it by so harsh a name as nesslbund madness, when it is considered that opposition to reason in most deserves that name, and is really madness ; and there...some cases he constantly does, would not be thought fitter for Bedlam than civil conversation. I do not here mean when he is under the power of an unruly...

...minds, and wherein it consists. 4. A Degree of Madness. — I shall be pardoned for calling it l,y so harsh a name as madness, when it is considered...opposition to reason deserves that name, and is really mad. Aess; and there is scarce a man so free from it, but that if he should always, on all occasions,...

...you are', does not mean the same thing as 'a man as busy as you are'.] Locke, Human Understanding: I shall be pardoned for calling it by so harsh a name as madness. Richardson Pamela III 82: To think I should act so barbarously as I did. Trollope, the American Senator...

...1. 256-57. 6. No country suffered so much as England. — MACAULAY, History of England i. 9. • 7. I shall be pardoned for calling it by so harsh a name as madness. — LOCKE, Human Understanding. 8. "I can do nothing with this boy," said he, red as fire. — MARRYAT,...

...flaw has its Original in very sober and rational Minds, and wherein it consists. I shall be pardon' d for calling it by so harsh a name as Madness, when...some cases he constantly does, would not be thought fitter for Bedlam, than Civil Conversation. I do not here mean when he is under the power of an unruly...

...the association of darkness with demons; and false associations are, at bottom, symptoms of madness: I shall be pardoned for calling it by so harsh a name...deserves that name and is really madness.. . . And if this be a Weakness to which all Men are so liable, if this be a Taint which so universally infects...

...l'humaine condition, comme accident contingent, risque potentiel, étape initiatique de toute destinée : [T]here is scarce a Man so free from it, but that if he should always on ail occasions argue or do as in some cases he constantly does, would not be thought fitter for Bedlam,...

...evidence of Reason, though laid before him as clear as daylight" (n,xxxiii,2) . This may rightly be called "by so harsh a name as madness, when it is considered, that opposition to Reason deserves that name" (n,xxxiii,4) . Locke observes that the particular wound he has in mind can rightly be ascribed to education...

...reaches not the bottom of the disease, nor shows distinctly enough whence it rises, or wherein it lies' 'I shall be pardoned for calling it by so harsh a name as madness,'26 Locke also offered one of the earliest associationistic models of delusions: 'Some of our...