...inquired of him whether he thought such maladies of the mind frequent, and how they were contracted? 'Disorders of intellect,' answered Imlac, ' happen...man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate 1 A translation of the Iliad. Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson. Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson. over...

...mind frequent, and how they were contracted. CHAPTER XLIV. THE DANGEROUS PREVALENCE OF IMAGINATION. " DISORDERS of intellect, " answered Imlac, " happen...human mind is in its right state. There is no man 5 whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention...

...easily believe. Perhaps if we speak with rigorous exactness, 5 no humanjnind.isuiojti right state. J There is no man [whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason.who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command....

...with its tail in the air," and sentence 11 repeats in expanded form the ideas of sentences 1 and 2. 1. "Disorders of intellect," answered Imlac, "happen...often than superficial observers will easily believe. 2. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. 3. There is no...

...intellect," answered Tmlac, "happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. 2. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. 3. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate...

...frequent, and how they were contracted. CHAPTER XLIV. THE DANGEROUS PREVALENCE OF IMAGINATION. \ ' DISORDERS of intellect,' answered Imlac, ' happen...Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human 30 140 mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate...

...as an unrealizable abstraction and neurosis as a universal affliction, varying of course in degree. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human...will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command. . . . All power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity. ... By degrees the reign of fancy is...

...Mackenzie, on mesure le triomphe discret de la tolérance envers la marginalité. En affirmant que "[p]erhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state" (Rasselas 114), Samuel Johnson attire l'attention sur le fait que tout homme est en puissance un malade...

...the world's population, for good or ill. Imlac concludes that no one is safe from the imagination: 'There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes...will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command. ... All power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity; . . . By degrees the reign of fancy is...

...what is an admitted bias, such research may seem merely to update Imlac's dry remark late in Rasselas: "Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state." In fact, hypotheses such as the egocentricity bias can do more than this. They can help us to situate...