"Catalepsy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fewer deserve some of the simpler and more common joys of life. The conception that was implicit in the disciplines of the older philosophies is still open to the philosophy of evolution. Behind it, as behind the "self-hypnotised catalepsy of the devotee of Brahma," the Buddhist aspirations to Nirvana, the apatheia of the Stoics, there may lie a recognition of the worthlessness of the individual: an equable acceptation of one's ...
— Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work • P. Chalmers Mitchell
... is precocious; it is rapidly consuming his body. We must guard him against an attack of catalepsy. ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, October, 1864 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various
... "realm of memory was the world of souls," he expressed a profound truth in a striking manner. It is dreams, swoons, catalepsy, with their allied states which suggest the existence of a double or ghost. Even in the absence of the mass of evidence from all quarters in support of this, the fact of the ghost always being pictured ...
— Theism or Atheism - The Great Alternative • Chapman Cohen
... in Slavishness (see Gregarious and Slavish Instincts) Smith, B. Woodd; curious Number-Form communicated by Smythe, G.F. Snakes, horror of some persons at; antipathy to, not common among mankind Socrates and his catalepsy Solitude Sound, association of colour with Space and time Spain, the races in Speke, Capt. Spencer, H., blended outlines Spiritual sense, the Stars of great men Statistical methods; statistical constancy; that of republics of self-reliant men; statistics of ...
— Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development • Francis Galton
... connected with her friend whom Nature has warped in the moulding.—That is nothing to another transcendental fancy of mine. I believe her soul thinks itself in his little crooked body at times,—if it does not really get freed or half freed from her own. Did you ever see a case of catalepsy? You know what I mean,—transient loss of sense, will, and motion; body and limbs taking any position in which they are put, as if they belonged to a lay-figure. She had been talking with him and listening to him one day when ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various
... seen the patient on the afternoon of that memorable day. For Veronica, Taquisara, and Don Teodoro had all three been mistaken when they had thought that Gianluca was dead. As the doctor said, there had been a crisis, an inward convulsion of the nerves, a fainting which had been almost a catalepsy, and, several hours later, a return to consciousness with a greatly increased chance of life, ...
— Taquisara • F. Marion Crawford |
