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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    —of subsistence to the higher realities of life—to one who had seemed “ Dead, more than half;” and small as was the key, it served to open the door to a large world of hopes, which had till then seemed closed for ever against me. I am far from wishing it to be understood, that I at once realized to my own mind all the cheering influences of the prospect which was then laid open before it: but it was open—that was the point. The door of exclusion was unlocked ; and I knew that I was at least free to roam over the wide prospect which lay beyond, although I had not yet explored all the glories of the distant hills, or tasted all the sweet- ness of the flowery vales which it embraced. It at first seemed so great an idea that I should cease to be utterly helpless, that it took some time before I could contemplate this prospect in any other relations than those which bore upon my own condition. As nearly as the matter can be now traced, the progress of my ideas appears to have been this:—Firstly, that I was not altogether so helpless as I had seemed. Secondly, that notwithstanding my afflicted state, I might realize much comfort in the condition of life in which I had been placed. Thirdly, that I might even raise myself out of that condition into one of less privation. Fourthly, that it was not impossible for me to place my own among honourable names, by proving that no pri- vation formed an insuperable bar to useful labour and self-advancement. Lastly, I became dissatis- fied with this conclusion ; and took up the view that the objects which I had by this time proposed to myself would be unattained, unless t he degree of usefulness which I might be enabled to realize,
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