Dr. R. S. Storrs points out the activity of the mind and its
persistence under great limitations in these words:
A universal spasmodic disease masters the organs of locomotion,
so that the arm or the limb will remain in any posture,
however unnatural, in which it is placed. The senses are
usually entirely sealed, of no more avail than if they were
obliterated. And the continued pulsation, with the warmth
which this maintains in the system, are the only indications
that life remains. Yet there have been authentic instances in
which the mind, thus shrouded from sight, instead of being
destroyed, impaired, or even limited, in its central force,
has been stimulated to a more amazing activity, by being thus
crowded, as it were, into a corner of its realm; and has feared
and agonized, or has triumphed and exulted, with a vividness of
experience altogether unaccustomed.
(2026)
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