Word: minds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...conditions under which the dream happened to me were these.-Last Friday I read a very dull book nearly all day,-"grinding" for the Mid-years. At length, in the evening, I could stand it no longer. My mind was tired, my memory overtaxed. With one last attempt to master my author's dullness, I yielded to him and retired from the contest exhausted. To invigorate myself I turned to De Quincey. I chanced to take up the volume on Murder, and tried the story of the murderer Johnson. The first few pages were interesting. The interest developed. Before...
...seemed to hold them fast, and they remained as rigid as if they had been turned to stone. I suppose I was in some sort of a trance; for while I was confined as securely by my inert body as if I were in a close cage, my mind was as active as ever...
...moment that I remained staring at this apparition of myself, the thought dawned upon me, with the ready intuition common to dreams, that this was my missing body. But what directed its actions? I knew, at once, that when I lost my body, the baser part of my mind, the passions must have remained with it. These passions, then, were the controlling power in this other side of my dual existence. But they could only act for evil! A great fear of what they would do came over me. I tried to warn the people of the house. I could...
...indeed a good thing. You all respect bodily equipment and strength, and I, too, have rejoiced in my countrymen as I have seen them at foot-ball or rowing-noble, stalwart, finely built fellows. It is good that you do have this respect, for there is a sound mind in a sound body." You men are intending to be influential in your lives, in a mental way and in business. Be also influential in a way that treats of subjects even more serious. To do this you must school yourselves now-and here-in we find the origin and purpose...
...have been those who have received two, three, and even four or five, dollars an hour, which is pretty good pay. But to command such prices, we may be sure that the tutors have established reputations for getting their men through. The five dollar tutor must have a master mind, as well as a natural talent for teaching...