Volume 1

The lost senses / By John Kitto.

  • John Kitto
Date:
1845
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The lost senses / By John Kitto. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    supposed so too : but the fact is, that the recol- lections are equally clear and distinct with reference to one part, extending over five hundred miles, of one journey, during which I was prevented from keeping any journal, and is also equally vivid with reference to home scenes, of which no written record is attempted. Experience has taught me strong reliance upon this faculty. I have so often been able to prove myself right, whenever the impression of another in any matter of ocular evidence has been different from my own, that I feel it safe to adhere to my own view of the point with all reasonable obstinacy. One out of many instances, will illustrate this point better than much abstract statement. In the place where I now write, some of the houses have fronts of red brick, and others have the fronts covered with plaster. I first went to see the house I now occupy in company with another person, who afterwards went again alone. The day before removing to it, a question arose whether the front were brick or plaster. My impression was that it was plaster; but my companion scouted the idea, and was quite sure of its being good red brick. As I was sensible that I had only given the matter cursory and not pointed attention, that is, that I had merely seen and not looked at the front, I was afraid to be too positive; in opposition to one who had been twice on the spot, and who must have had reason for being so resolute in behalf of so marked a thing as red brick: yet, on the other hand, I had been too much in the habit of relying upon my own ocular impressions to abandon the ground I had taken, even though the weight of
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