Mechanism in Thought And Morals. An Address Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard University, June 29, 1870
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They were so far beyond my powers, that I despaired of equalling them ; yet I must have made them unconsciously as I read them. Could I only have remembered them waking ! But I must here add another personal ex- perience, of which I will say beforehand, — somewhat as honest Izaak Walton said of his pike, " This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers or very honest men," — this story is good only for philosophers and very small children. I will merely hint to the former class of thinkers, ...that its moral bears 46 MECHANISM on two points: first, the value of our self- estimate, sleeping, — possibly, also, waking; secondly, the significance of general formulae when looked at in certain exalted mental conditions. I once inhaled a pretty full dose of ether, with the determination to put on record, at the earliest moment of regaining conscious- ness, the thought I should find uppermost in my mind. The mighty music of the tri- umphal march into nothingness reverberated through my brain, and filled me Avith a sense of infinite possibilities, which made' me an archangel for the moment.
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