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The very garb of woe, whose mournful effect is felt to the full, only when each one sees it worn by the other the very garb paralyses, and brings impressively before us, the awful truth, that for our loss, in this world, there is no remedy. How holy, how chaste is the affection, which we feel disposed to lavish, on those who are left us.
It is an odd thing how happily two people, if there are two, can live in a place where they have no acquaintance. I think the spectacle of a whole life in which you have no part paralyses personal desire. You are content to become a mere spectator.
Evidently this constitutes a social status that merits consideration from the law; but the moral state, what is it? You say that she is paralyzed?" "She has been so a little more than a year." "Of what paralysis? That is a vague word for us others. There are paralyses that affect the sight; others that affect the mind.
What has been stated of the paralyses is true of the insensitive areas; they correspond to an idea of a part and not to an anatomical unit. No organically caused anaesthetic area ever does this, and so the neurologist is able, usually, to separate the two conditions.
Successful politicians have united with great parliamentary toil and triumph legal occupations or learned studies. But politics do require that the heart should be free, and at peace from all more absorbing private anxieties from the gnawing of a memory or a care, which dulls ambition and paralyses energy. In this sense politics do require the whole man.
A storm at sea is bad enough in the daytime, but at night it is terrible; for then, the peril unseen is so magnified by the terror- stricken mind as to become far more appalling than a much greater danger seen face to face and realised: the latter can be grappled with, but the former, by its very intangibility and "unreachableness," daunts the bravest heart and paralyses the strongest arm!
I think the spectacle of a whole life in which you have no part paralyses personal desire. You are content to become a mere spectator. The baker stands in his door; the colonel with his three medals goes by to the cafe at night; the troops drum and trumpet and man the ramparts, as bold as so many lions. It would task language to say how placidly you behold all this.
The highly rarefied air, rushing at great speed, when at its worst deprives the traveller of breath, skins his face and hands, and paralyses the baggage animals. In fact, neither man nor beast can face it. The horses 'turn tail' and crowd together, and the men build up the baggage into a wall and crouch in the lee of it. The heat of the solar rays is at the same time fearful.
In the dead bough of a lilac-tree the dark-hued Xylocopa, the wood-boring bee, is busy tunnelling her gallery. In the shade of the rushes the Praying Mantis, rustling the floating robe of her long tender green wings, "gazes alertly, on the watch, her arms folded on her breast, her appearance that of one praying," and paralyses the great grey locust, nailed to its place by fear.
A heart and a hand are there, and from the midst of it the Father's voice speaks, and says, 'My son, give Me thine heart. The religion of fear is worthless. It produces no holiness, it does nothing for a man, it does not bind him to God. He is none the stronger for it. It paralyses so far as it does anything. It is spasmodic and intermittent.
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