The Face of Rosenfeld — page 16: what you’re looking at

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— THE FACH OF ROSENFEL. 9 recovered, but he always persisted in a denial that he had ever gone out to ride. The accident robbed him of his memory, not only of the time after he fainted, but of the timé preceding that event by some hours. He never has been and undoubtedly never will be able to recall that time. ‘Three or four years ago I was called to attend a lunatic who had been troubled with a suicidal mania. He had at last succeeded in eluding the vigil- ance of his keepers and had hung himself. We restored him, and he has been the sanest of sane men since. I have seen a person absolutely an idiot from fright. You have doubtless yourself noted insanity or mania from that cause. In view of these facts I say it is well to think twice before dismissing that hypothesis in a case like this.” The younger man listened ceenuvely, but he did not seem convinced. ‘Doubtless terror is a powerful faction—sometimes,” he said, ** but nevertheless I do not see how it can be all in this case. The patient is not exactly an idiot. Jam very sure that, in her way, she thinks.” The elder physician made no reply, but he laughed quietly. ““T do not mean that she can follow a conscious train of thought, but that there is an unconscious undercur- rent, so to speak, which never rises into consciousness. It is the upper surface of the mind only that exhibits itself in intelligence, and in my opinion there is some- thing more than reflex action in the great undercurrent that throws up the little waves, the tops of which only we call reason. ‘This mind is not dead, even though -it appears to be.” _ The elder physician looked both puzzled and amused, “eral P< hal eed nic CO Oh Ve tet, Ford te BA a th” 2S i DE ee Se el es pre eS ig ae ee ee NS A ga. ——-. Seek ee MS) oe ae Sec | YOST wy Seah ain 4 Berea hock 6g ew ait NM er heh IT caer ec aotb Sete cae Mae e Pay faa ie po Fe! Sak ee Cw Sys SW bet ig fa eeee re: ee Or ab ee ok [— ee Oe oe rae AL OPP en ot One ie ~ STP y < 5 ated aon a) aaa, See pe enh or Se ern ax te + : ; eae IZ PE ® “2 f- s et ; rhe a Se ng vhs TF Sa er na -* winds Mar ere - , ; . f ‘ “ : 7 = ; J " ~ a 4 Lee ‘ee Bay 0 SERS GA ne aan Sun erate eer aur eC OMG DOO <= €o