...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...

...population on his shoulders. Imlac reflects that no one is immune from the depredations of the imagination: "There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, . . . All power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity; ... By degrees the reign of fancy is...

...traditional Christian sense of human frailty, and his distrust of egoism, pride and presump182 tion: 'There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate this attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command. . . . All power...

...with his traditional Christian sense of human frailty and distrust of egoism, pride, and presumption: 'There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate this attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command. No man will be...

...uncertainties of our present state, the most dreadful and alarming is the uncertain continuance of reason . . . There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason . . . and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. All power of fancy over...

...you're an Alice with your distorted self waiting. Johnson, Brigham 's hero, goes so far as to say that "if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state" and writes movingly of the start of psychosis: "He who has nothing external that can divert him, must...