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I remember some who were evidently the victims of monomania, haunted and hunted by some dark thought, possessed by a fixed idea.
The shoulders were shrunken, the temples fallen in, the neck behind was pinched, and the eyes looked out like brown beads alive with fire, and touched with the excitement of monomania. His last word had a delicate savagery of irony, though, too, there could be heard in the tone a defiance, arguing apprehension, not lost upon his visitor.
"Macleod," said the gallant soldier, as the two friends walked leisurely down towards the Thames, "if you let this monomania get such a hold of you, do you know how it will end? You will begin to show signs of having a conscience." "What do you mean?" said he, absently. "Your nervous system will break down, and you will begin to have a conscience. That is a sure sign, in either a man or a nation.
And sometimes once or twice the thought had in some unspeakable, untranslatable way brought him a moment's calm. But at other times he had said to himself with a shivering soul cowering within him that this was only part of it all and was a beginning, perhaps, of religious monomania. During the last week he had known what he was going to do he had made up his mind.
But," continued my father, more gravely, "when some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania; when you think because Heaven has denied you this or that on which you had set your heart that all your life must be a blank, oh! then diet yourself well on biography, the biography of good and great men. See how little a space one sorrow really makes in life.
'Do not fires, fevers, seeds, chemical mixtures, GO ON GROWING. Observe, too, that EACH GROWS with a rapidity proportioned to the madness and unhealthiness there is in it. A ruler who, in an unaggressive age such as this, can concentrate his life and his people's on the one ambition of plunging the world in an ocean of blood, in which his own monomania can bathe in triumph Good God! there is madness and unhealthiness to flourish in!"
An hallucination is a sensation which is supposed by the patient to be produced by external impressions, although no material object acts upon his senses at the time. =Partial Intellectual Mania=, or =Monomania=, also called =Melancholia=, is a form of the disease in which the patient becomes possessed of some single notion, contradictory alike to common-sense and his own experience.
It had become a monomania with him. Never did he sit down without there being enough before him for a small family, and as his food was all brought in cooked from a neighboring restaurant, this eccentricity of his was well known, and gave an added éclat to his otherwise hermit-like habits.
The coming to the fulfillment of single aloneness, through love, is made impossible for us by the ideal, the monomania of more love. At the very âge dangereuse, when a woman should be accomplishing her own fulfillment into maturity and rich quiescence, she turns rabidly to seek a new lover.
The same state of feeling which John Barton entertained, if belonging to one who had had leisure to think of such things, and physicians to give names to them, would have been called monomania; so haunting, so incessant, were the thoughts that pressed upon him. I have somewhere read a forcibly described punishment among the Italians, worthy of a Borgia.
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