Questionable Shapes by W.D. Howells

Author:W.D. Howells [Howells, W.D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781517536381
Google: jPh1jgEACAAJ
Published: 2019-11-19T12:06:00+00:00

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THE ANGEL OF THE LORD.

ogist answered.

u Perhaps the pathologists do.”

“ Oh, it’ s easy enough to say wind, ” Bulledge indignantly protested.

“ Too easy, I agree with you, ” Wanliope consented.

“ W e cannot tell what influences reach us from our environment, or what our environment really is, or how much or little we mean by the word.

The sense

of danger seems to be inborn, and possibly it is a survival of our race life when it was wholly animal and took care of itself through what we used to call the instincts. But, as I was saying, it was not danger that Ormond seemed to be afraid of, if it came short of death.

He was almost abnormally indifferent to pain.

I knew of his undergoing an operation that most people would take ether for, and not wincing, because it was not supposed to involve a fatal result.

“ Perhaps he carried his own anodyne with him, ”

said Minver, “ like the Chinese. ”

“ You mean a sort o f self-anaesthesia ? ” W anhope asked.

“ That is very interesting.

How far such a

principle, if there is one, can be carried in practice.

The hypnotists— ”

“ I ’m afraid I didn’t mean anything so serious or scientific, ” said the painter.

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