Relations between the Physical and the Moral. 263 



We will quote one passage, and that not from among the strong- 

 est, referring the reader for further specimens to the book itself: 



' " I went to bed with such a swelling of all the organs that I was 

 dull and, as it were, stupefied. I gently kissed, like a little dog that 

 is beaten, the hand of my Master and then, as is my custom on 

 every occasion of danger, I looked on that dear Master with a 

 burning gaze of love and trustfulness, and going quite out of my 

 own hateful personality, I reposed in him all my true life, so that 

 I went to sleep in consequence of this practical death, and at once 

 I was no more conscious of myself than I should have been had I 

 died outright. I awoke, however, for a moment in the .night, but as 

 I was no better, I took refuge again in my dear Master 



' " I meditated on the meditations of Saint Francois de Sales on 

 the Song of Songs, at my morning prayer. One night, therefore, 

 while wide awake, I felt myself in suspense in the midst of all my 

 enjoyments, and awaiting, with a sort of terror, what the Lord 

 would say. ' I saw him most vividly as he is described in the Song 



of Songs He lay down near me, put his feet on my feet, 



laid his hands on mine and enlarged his thorny crown, where he 

 pressed his head to mine ; then, while giving me a lively sense of 

 the pains of his nails and his thorns, touching my lips with his own, 

 and giving me the divinest kiss of a divine spouse, he breathed 

 into my mouth a delicious breath, which pouring over my whole 

 being a refreshing vigour, rejoiced it all over with an incomparable 

 thrill, and won it for him without reserve.' 1 



We need not describe the influence of mutilation on the senti- 

 ments in general, on the direction of the mind. In the case of 

 animals, while making them weaker, it makes them also more 

 docile and better suited for use by man. ' It is well known,' says 

 Cabanis, ' that eunuchs are the vilest class of the whole human 

 race : they are cowardly and deceitful because they are weak, 

 envious and spiteful because they are unfortunate, yet their mind 

 is conscious of the lack of those impressions which give so much 

 activity to the brain, and which animate it with extraordinary life.' 

 Then there are the hermaphrodites. All who have studied 

 them in their moral characteristics, are aware that the individual 



1 Ibid. pp. 269277. 



