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Robertson, “The Prodigal and His Brother,” in Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton, vol. 1 (Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1861), 263–265. The Dread of the Supernatural (The Spectator) 27 he has been told tales of terror, there is an instinctive dread of the supernatural in the infant mind. It is the instinct which we have from childhood that gives us the feeling of another world. And mark, brethren, if the child is not at home in the thought of that world of God’s, the deep of darkness and eternity is, around him—God’s home, but not his home, for his flesh creeps.

On the Words for “Fear” in Certain Languages (Chamberlain) 17 English “my heart leaped into my mouth,” in speaking of certain aspects of fear. VI. ” The last mentioned symptom is illustrated by the etymology of the word horror. , as the older form (horsere) of the verb (cf. ” In Sanskrit hirsh, “to bristle,” is said of the hair, “especially as a token of anger or pleasure” (Skeat). , II, 774: Obstupui, steteruntqne comæ, et vox faucibus hæsit. VII. The “freezing of the blood” finds cognate expression in some of our fear-words, and besides we speak often enough of “the cold shivers” of fear, and “the cold sweat” that accompanies it.

Labour is not only requisite to preserve the coarser organs in a state fit for their functions; but it is equally necessary to those finer and more delicate organs, on which, and by which, the imagination, and perhaps the other mental powers, act. Since it is probable, that not only the inferior parts of the soul, as the passions are called, but the understanding itself, makes use of some fine corporeal instruments in its operation; though what they are, and where they are, may be somewhat hard to settle; but that it does make use of such, appears from hence; that a long exercise of the mental powers induces a remarkable lassitude of the whole body; and, on the other hand, that great bodily labour, or pain, weakens, and sometimes actually destroys, the mental faculties.

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