...XLIII. The dangerous prevalence of imagination. ' " T^ ISORDERS of intellect, answered J_-/ Imlac, happen much more often than superficial observers...found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannise, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. \ All power of fancy...

...contracted. CHAP. XLIII. The dangerous prevalence of imagination. DISORDERS of intellect, answered Imlac, happen much more often than superficial observers...attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will will come and go at his command. No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannise,...

...believe. /Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state, ^here is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate...found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannise, and force him to hope >or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. | All power of fancy...

...contracted. CHAP. XLIII. ! The dangerous prevalence of imagination. ISORDERS of intellect, answered D Imlac, happen much more often than superficial observers...human mind is in its right state. There is no man who^e imagination does _not_ sonifiHmes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention...

...contracted. CHAP. XLIII. The dangerous prevalence of imagination. DISORDERS of intellect, answered Imlac, happen much more often than superficial observers...rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. f There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason]} who can regulate...

...as an unrealizable abstraction and neurosis as a universal affliction, varying of course in degree. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human...will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command. . . . All power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity. ... By degrees the reign of fancy is...

...Mackenzie, on mesure le triomphe discret de la tolérance envers la marginalité. En affirmant que "[p]erhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state" (Rasselas 114), Samuel Johnson attire l'attention sur le fait que tout homme est en puissance un malade...

...the world's population, for good or ill. Imlac concludes that no one is safe from the imagination: 'There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes...will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command. ... All power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity; . . . By degrees the reign of fancy is...

...what is an admitted bias, such research may seem merely to update Imlac's dry remark late in Rasselas: "Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state." In fact, hypotheses such as the egocentricity bias can do more than this. They can help us to situate...

...population on his shoulders. Imlac reflects that no one is immune from the depredations of the imagination: "There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, . . . All power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity; ... By degrees the reign of fancy is...