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There are, in fact, two classes of temperaments as to this terrific drug those which are, and those which are not, preconformed to its power; those which genially expand to its temptations, and those which frostily exclude them.
There are, in fact, two classes of temperaments as to this terrific drug those which are, and those which are not, preconformed to its power; those which genially expand to its temptations, and those which frostily exclude them.
There are in fact two classes of temperaments as to this terrific drug those which are and those which are not preconformed to its power; those which genially expand to its temptations, and those which frostily exclude them.
Hence De Quincey was of the opinion that it injured Coleridge's poetic faculties; which probably was the case, since in genuine poetry the mind is prominently realistic, its motions are all outward, and therefore excessive indolence must of necessity be fatal. De Quincey's physical system, on the contrary, seemed preconformed to opium: it demanded it, and would be satisfied with nothing else.
This is almost as bad as the case reported of Stonewall Jackson, who, it is said, religiously believed that whatever he ate was, by some mysterious physiological economy, conveyed into his left leg. No less was De Quincey psychologically preconformed to opium. The prodigious mental activity so early awakened in him counteracted the narcotic despotism of the drug, and made it a sort of ally.
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