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John Locke

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Section S14

Section 615 of 1,114

Canonical reference B2.C33.S14

English

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A friend of mine knew one perfectly cured of madness by a very harsh and offensive operation. The gentleman who was thus recovered, with great sense of gratitude and acknowledgment owned the cure all his life after, as the greatest obligation he could have received; but, whatever gratitude and reason suggested to him, he could never bear the sight of the operator: that image brought back with it the idea of that agony which he suffered from his hands, which was too mighty and intolerable for him to endure.

French

Pierre Coste · Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam, 1735, third edition

Un de mes Amis a connu un homme qui ayant été parfaitement guéri de la rage par une operation extremement ſenſible, ſe reconnut obligé toute ſa vie à celui qui lui avoit rendu ce ſervice, qu’il regardoit comme le plus grand qu’il pût jamais recevoir. Mais malgré tout ce que la reconnoiſſance & la raiſon pouvoient lui ſuggerer, il ne put jamais ſouffrir la vûe de l’Operateur. Cette image lui rappelloit toûjours l’idée de l’extrême douleur qu’il avoit enduré par ſes mains : idée qu’il ne lui étoit pas poſſible de ſupporter, tant elle faiſoit de violentes impreſſions ſur ſon Eſprit.

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