 | Timothy Morton - Alcohol - 2000 - 246 pages
...farther, who would trace this sort of madness to the root it springs from; and so explain it, as to shew whence this flaw has its original in very sober and...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... | |
 | Nicholas Dames - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 312 pages
...associations with a discussion of the madness to which they seem to lead: "I shall be pardon'd," he writes, "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." 13 The high associationism of the eighteenth century could... | |
 | Jacqueline Atkinson - Medical - 2007 - 216 pages
...be attributed to education and prejudice, Locke goes further, calling it both a disease and madness. I shall be pardoned for calling it by so harsh a name...madness; and there is scarce a man so free from it that he should always, on all occasions, argue or do as in some cases he constantly does, would not... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1800 - 524 pages
...original in very sober and rational minds, and wherein it consists. SECT. 4. A degree of madness. — I shall be pardoned for calling it by so harsh a name...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... | |
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I shall be pardoned for calling it by so harsh a name as "madness" when it is considered that opposition to reason deserves that name, and is really madness; and there is scarce a man so free from it but that if he should always, on all occasions, argue... 
