| Author: | Charles Dickens | ISBN: | 1230000155385 |
| Publisher: | WDS Publishing | Publication: | July 27, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Charles Dickens |
| ISBN: | 1230000155385 |
| Publisher: | WDS Publishing |
| Publication: | July 27, 2013 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
I have always noticed a prevalent want of courage, even among persons of
superior intelligence and culture, as to imparting their own
psychological experiences when those have been of a strange sort. Almost
all men are afraid that what they could relate in such wise would find
no parallel or response in a listener's internal life, and might be
suspected or laughed at. A truthful traveller who should have seen some
extraordinary creature in the likeness of a sea-serpent, would have no
fear of mentioning it; but the same traveller having had some singular
presentiment, impulse, vagary of thought, vision (so-called), dream, or
other remarkable mental impression, would hesitate considerably before
he would own to it. To this reticence I attribute much of the obscurity
in which such subjects are involved. We do not habitually communicate
our experiences of these subjective things, as we do our experiences of
objective creation. The consequence is, that the general stock of
experience in this regard appears exceptional, and really is so, in
respect of being miserably imperfect.
I have always noticed a prevalent want of courage, even among persons of
superior intelligence and culture, as to imparting their own
psychological experiences when those have been of a strange sort. Almost
all men are afraid that what they could relate in such wise would find
no parallel or response in a listener's internal life, and might be
suspected or laughed at. A truthful traveller who should have seen some
extraordinary creature in the likeness of a sea-serpent, would have no
fear of mentioning it; but the same traveller having had some singular
presentiment, impulse, vagary of thought, vision (so-called), dream, or
other remarkable mental impression, would hesitate considerably before
he would own to it. To this reticence I attribute much of the obscurity
in which such subjects are involved. We do not habitually communicate
our experiences of these subjective things, as we do our experiences of
objective creation. The consequence is, that the general stock of
experience in this regard appears exceptional, and really is so, in
respect of being miserably imperfect.
