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Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich

CHAPTER SEVEN: The Ministrations of the Rev
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"But surely his mind is understood to be--" "Oh not at all," interrupted Dr.Boomer.

"His mind appears if anything, to be clearer and stronger than ever.

Dr.Slyder tells us that paralysis of the brain very frequently has this effect; it soothes the brain--clears it, as it were, so that very often intellectual problems which occasioned the greatest perplexity before present no difficulty whatever afterwards.

Dr.McTeague, I believe, finds no trouble now in reconciling St.Paul's dialectic with Hegel as he used to.

He says that so far as he can see they both mean the same thing." "Well, well," said Mr.Newberry, "and will Dr.McTeague also resume his philosophical lectures at the university ?" "We think it wiser not," said the president.


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