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MELANCHOLIA, med. jur. A name given by the ancients to a species of partial intellectual mania, now more generally known by the name of monomania. (q.v.) It bore this name because it was supposed to be always attended by dejection of mind and gloomy ideas. Vide Mania., |
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Crocodiles and rattlesnakes and pythons are at this moment vessels of life as we are; their loathsome existence fills every minute of every day that drags its length along; and whenever they or other wild beasts clutch their living prey, the deadly horror which an agitated melancholiac feels is literally the right reaction to the situation. His book sets out to present a synthesis of More's works that will aid appreciation of the moral and cultural depths of More's Christian humanism while resolving inconsistencies which Wegemer sees as misreadings of the texts and hence as specious occasions for theorizing an enraged, melancholiac or sex-possessed Thomas More. |
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