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But he deludes himself if he imagines that any conclusions he can arrive at, while he practises M. Comte's rule of hygiène cérébrale, can possibly be definitive. Neither is such a practice, in a hygienic point of view, free from the gravest dangers to the philosopher's own mind.
But can these whims a higher gusto raise Unless you eat the plumage that you praise? Or do its glories when 'tis boiled remain? No; 'tis the unequaled beauty of its train, Deludes your eye and charms you to the feast, For hens and peacocks are alike in taste. Then peacocks have been made useful in a medicinal way.
Almost any one who has had a practical observation of the working of Christian Science has knowledge enough not only of looseness and inconsistency but of what seems to the non-Christian Science mind positive untruth. Something, however, must always be allowed here for the way in which the mind acts under excitement and for the way in which delusion deludes.
But when Saul had left the cave, David came near and cried out aloud, and desired Saul to hear him; whereupon the king turned his face back, and David, according to custom, fell down on his face before the king, and bowed to him; and said, "O king, thou oughtest not to hearken to wicked men, nor to such as forge calumnies, nor to gratify them so far as to believe what they say, nor to entertain suspicions of such as are your best friends, but to judge of the dispositions of all men by their actions; for calumny deludes men, but men's own actions are a clear demonstration of their kindness.
Why, thus it is with the saints when Satan deludes and abuses them by disfiguring the countenance of Christ to their view.
All I say is, that men have been happy without it, even under the pressure of disaster, and that to make immortality a sole spring of action here is an exaggeration of the folly which deludes us all through life with endless expectation, and leaves us at death without the thorough enjoyment of a single hour. So I shrank from Mardon, but none the less did the process of excavation go on.
Dalinda's unhappy passion for Malvolio incites him to ruin her, and though he deludes her with an unregistered marriage at the Fleet, he has no scruples against marrying the rich Flavilla.
And not in our salad days only, when we are still green in judgment, but even to grey hairs, this wicked witch continues to entrap us to our ruin. Love, in all its phases and in all its mixtures, first deludes the very young; and then place, and power, and fame, and money are the bait she busks for the middle-aged and the old; and always with the same bubble end.
This, as Hegel has it, is the 'cunning' of the Absolute Reason, which deludes us into the belief that there is a purpose to be attained, and by the help of that delusion preserves that energy of action which all the time is really itself the End."
'Are you in love? inquired Schulembourg. 'Certainly not, replied Walstein, 'and I fear I never shall be. 'You have been? inquired the physician. 'I have had some fancies, perhaps too many, answered the patient; 'but youth deludes itself. My idea of a heroine has never been realised, and, in all probability, never will be.
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