The autobiography of Elizabeth Squirrell of Shottisham, and selections from her writings : together with an examination and defence of her statements relative to her sufferings, blindness, deafness, entire abstinence from food and drink during twenty-five weeks, and other extraordinary phenomena: also facts and opinions illustrative and suggestive / by one of her watchers.
- Squirrell, Elizabeth, 1838-
- Date:
- 1853
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The autobiography of Elizabeth Squirrell of Shottisham, and selections from her writings : together with an examination and defence of her statements relative to her sufferings, blindness, deafness, entire abstinence from food and drink during twenty-five weeks, and other extraordinary phenomena: also facts and opinions illustrative and suggestive / by one of her watchers. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![• He that answereili a matter before he hearcth it, it is foliy aud shame unto him’ . . ..... iSoLOMOjt. ‘Umlimiied scepticism is equally tlie child of imbecility, as ImitUcIt credulity ’....... Braid. ‘God woiks by natural laws, of which we yet know very little, and, in some departments of his kingdom, nothing; and what appears to us supernatural, only appears so from our Ignorance’ . Mas. Caowa. ‘There arc deep recesses in the temple of nature, which the feeble flame kindled by man upon her altars serves rather to indicate thmi to illumine ’ . . . . . . . 1'ci.lou. ‘The living body is such a lal)oratory of miracles, that one hardly dare say he understands its healthy and normal actions; still less that the rationale of diseased action is truly made out ’ . . O. Uedford. ‘It Is not to be wondered at that man has always been regarded as an anomalous being; the only enigma of nature, with regard to whom more theories have been written than of all the rest of creation beside, but without the addition of scarcely a ray of light in a century ’ E. C. Kogsrs. ‘New truths are first denied with scorn, and denounced as imposture ; then, when it is no longer possible to deny them, it is discovered that they are not new ’....... Dr. Greoort. ‘Nature will answer if we intciTOgate, but only if we interrogate her ; not if we interrogate 00 HSELVES ’ ..... Leader. ‘ Vi’e are satisfied that, if applied with discrimination, the process [Mesmerism] will take rank as one of the most potent methods of [curative] treatment ’. . . . Quarterlt Review, October, 1S53. ‘ It would really seem a» if we required some new apostle of charity, for, practically, it has disappeared among us. Why is it that, almost invariably, we put the worst construction upon the conduct of our neigh- bours? Why should we seek, with such amazing avidity, to infer guilt from equivocal circumstances, and reject, with a certain fiendisbness of purpose, all extenuating matter? Tlmt is a very common, but a very bad feature of the age we live in ’ , Blackwood’s MsoAruiE, June, 1853.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24861807_0009.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
