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    INSANITY , PAST AND PRESENT. 305

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    XL.VII.—INSANITY, PAST AND PRESENT. A

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    qp Insanity, like other diseases, change...

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    procuring pardon for a prisoner sentenced to death . A recollection which was a constant source of delight to hernone the less for

    , her In fruitless the following efforts Lent and b , itter she returned disappointment to Rome at for Alb the ano . ceremonies

    of Holy Week . She was met by Canova with an air of delighted mysteryand requested to visit his studio on an appointed day .

    " Mir , ase ho pens a to a lei / " said the sculptor , as he unveiled two busts , proud , both as a friend and an artist of the homage which his

    genius had enabled him to offer to one whom he so deeply admired . They were both likenesses , made from remembrance , of herself .

    pression The busts and did Canova not please 7 s mortification her ; she could was not extreme conceal . The her wounde first im d -

    vanitof , the artist was more excusable than that of the womanand it was y never healed . On one of the busts he placed a crown , of

    olive , and so changed , called it Beatrice , and under that name it is known .

    Political events were growing more and more complicated , and Napoleon ' s fall drawing near . Madame Recamier passed a short

    time once more at Naples , and while there learned that the crisis was passedthe Bourbons restoredand her return to her home

    therefore possible , . She paused in , passing through Rome to witness the re-entry of Pius VII ., and again at Lyons to see her

    sisterin-law , M . _Ballanche , and her other friends . She was received with delight by themand even with public enthusiasm at a fete given

    in honor of the , Restoration . On the 1 st of June , 1814 , she reentered Paris after a three years' exile .

    ( To he concluded in our next . )'

    Insanity , Past And Present. 305

    INSANITY , PAST AND PRESENT . 305

    Xl.Vii.—Insanity, Past And Present. A

    XL . VII . —INSANITY , PAST AND PRESENT . A

    Qp Insanity, Like Other Diseases, Change...

    _qp _Insanity , like other diseases , changes in its outward complexion with times and seasons . Every age and country stamps its own

    impress upon the manifestation of this malady , and gives its peculiar tinge and color to its development . Considered , till within the

    last few years as mysterious and undefinable , superstition both in ancient and modern times has ever exercised a powerful influence

    over the judgment when devoted to the investigation of the cause or cure of lunacy . Madness has been even made the object of

    worship , —so strange are the idols before which man has bowed in adoration . The philosophers taught , that in some instances insanity

    was a Divine afflatus , and consequently a blessing . They deemed that mental alienation proceeded from two causesthe one derived from

    , the malignant influence of a demon ; the other , especially when the hallucinations partook of an ecsta / fcic characterthe actual

    expres-, sion of the Divine presence , and the maniac was either consulted as VOL . VI . Y

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1861, page 305, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011861/page/17/