Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Thus I remained for some time. Then a change came over me. I began to grow less and less conscious of sights and sounds around me; I thought less and less of my strange situation, and cared less and less what would become of me. At last the lethargy mastered my senses completely. I had a sensation of falling through endless space, and then my consciousness passed away...
...curious part of the whole affair was with myself. I had no body. I call this circumstance a curious one, but this is rather an after thought; at that time it did not seem at all peculiar. I had all my usual perceptions about me. I saw everything that was in the room, heard what the children were saying, felt the warmth of the fire. What was the need of a body? True I could not move; but, in such pleasant surroundings, I was well content to stay where I was. So, in fact, it was not until I thought...
During the 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...
...which it is impossible to find elsewhere, or, if to be found at all, only after toilsome research. If the disagreeableness of note-taking were the only drawback, we would have little to complain of; but the great trouble is that while industriously taking down some important portion of thought, and are henceforth unable to profit by the instructor's remarks. If, now, there were in our curriculum a voluntary course in stenography, we might be able to acquire this very useful accomplishment of writing in shorthand, without being obliged to go to the great expense and trouble of getting...
...colleges of New England have led the thought of all this great continent; their graduates have gone out into all parts, exerting a powerful influence. That you, the delegates from New England colleges should meet here at Harvard, which has so many advantages and which is so central in its position and influence, is 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...