Essays Old And New

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Essays Old And New
Elizabeth Wordworth
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This is a not unusual form of what may be called spiritual hypochondria. In the literal disease it is common enough to find patients who fancy them- selves under special and mysterious restrictions or obligations, who go through some singular panto- mimic performances, as Dr. Johnson seems to have done in obedience to this strange hallucination, who believe themselves to be incapable of moving a limb, of eating, or of making some other ordinary effort ; who are in fact, in their own imagination
..., fettered and in captivity, or even subject to some ludicrous metamorphosis.
In the moral world this disease is equally common.
ANDREA DEL SARTO 79 People yield to their own weaknesses, muddle and blunder away their lives, and then boast of resigna- tion to the will of a higher Power. There is no more common excuse for laziness than this kind of fatalism.
Many of us will remember how, at the very entrance of Purgatory, Dante has painted for us a group of people lounging negligently in the shadow of the rock, and among them the figure of Belacqua, sitting and hugging his knees as if in weari- ness, with his face buried between them (Purg.


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