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...intellect," answered Tmlac, "happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. 2. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. 3. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate...

...CHAPTER XLIV. THE DANGEROUS PREVALENCE OF IMAGINATION. \ ' DISORDERS of intellect,' answered Imlac, ' happen much more often than superficial observers...Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human 30 140 mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate...