A Gift From Fairy Land
A Gift From Fairy Land
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By degrees, as his weakness increased, the keenness of his sufferings diminished in proportion, and at length the emaciated philosopher became thoroughly convinced, that the sensations of hunger and thirst, could not be proved to have an existence by any genuine philosophical de- duction from demonstrative principles. What seemed the more to convince him of this, was the conduct of the fairies on this occasion. In order to fortify him in the opinion that hunger and thirst were all fancy, as he ...lay almost helpless on his pillow, with misty eyes, through which every object seemed dancing be- fore him in the maze of visionary uncertainty, and hia brain whirling in the dizzy mazes of madness, they would circle in airy rounds about his bed, in a thou- sand fantastic forms, such as flit before the eye of the nervous patient, in huge unnatural deformity, now towards, and anon receding, like shadows of infernal growth. If the philosopher had believed the evidence of his senses, in relation to his being hungry or athirst, he would have been obliged for the sake of consisten- cy, to give credence to these fantastic images, and ac- cordingly he settled the matter by disbelieving in both.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
By degrees, as his weakness increased, the keenness of his sufferings diminished in proportion, and at length the emaciated philosopher became thoroughly convinced, that the sensations of hunger and thirst, could not be proved to have an existence by any genuine philosophical de- duction from demonstrative principles. What seemed the more to convince him of this, was the conduct of the fairies on this occasion. In order to fortify him in the opinion that hunger and thirst were all fancy, as he ...lay almost helpless on his pillow, with misty eyes, through which every object seemed dancing be- fore him in the maze of visionary uncertainty, and hia brain whirling in the dizzy mazes of madness, they would circle in airy rounds about his bed, in a thou- sand fantastic forms, such as flit before the eye of the nervous patient, in huge unnatural deformity, now towards, and anon receding, like shadows of infernal growth. If the philosopher had believed the evidence of his senses, in relation to his being hungry or athirst, he would have been obliged for the sake of consisten- cy, to give credence to these fantastic images, and ac- cordingly he settled the matter by disbelieving in both.
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