Doctor Judas : a Portrayal of the Opium Habit
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(5) That he should have been dead thirty-five years before but for the "beneficent" drug.
Readers of this book will observe that the author's experience is positively contrary in every particular to this summary of De Quincey's conclu- sions. There is not an opium habitue in this or any other Christian country, not one anywhere, but that will in his own sad servitude confute the author of the "Confessions." In the various interpolations that are found in the revised edition of 1856 charity may ...see vanity and senility ; while justice proclaims them downright falsehood and deceit. The illus- trious writer of these amendments confuted himself by his own words at the time he promulgated them.
In his Prefatory Notice to the New and Enlarged Edition, he says: "A nervous malady of a very peculiar character, that has attacked me intermit- tingly for the last eleven years, came in on May last, almost concurrently with the commencement of this revision; and so obstinately has the malady pre- served its noiseless and what I may call subterranean siege, since none of the symptoms are externally 112 DOCTOR JUDAS.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
(5) That he should have been dead thirty-five years before but for the "beneficent" drug.
Readers of this book will observe that the author's experience is positively contrary in every particular to this summary of De Quincey's conclu- sions. There is not an opium habitue in this or any other Christian country, not one anywhere, but that will in his own sad servitude confute the author of the "Confessions." In the various interpolations that are found in the revised edition of 1856 charity may ...see vanity and senility ; while justice proclaims them downright falsehood and deceit. The illus- trious writer of these amendments confuted himself by his own words at the time he promulgated them.
In his Prefatory Notice to the New and Enlarged Edition, he says: "A nervous malady of a very peculiar character, that has attacked me intermit- tingly for the last eleven years, came in on May last, almost concurrently with the commencement of this revision; and so obstinately has the malady pre- served its noiseless and what I may call subterranean siege, since none of the symptoms are externally 112 DOCTOR JUDAS.
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