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Dr. Heidenhoff’s Process

CHAPTER X
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About these the feeling is, I suppose, like that of a man who, when he gets over a fit of drunkenness or somnambulism, finds himself unable to account for things which he has unconsciously said or done.

The immediate effect of the operation, as I intimated before, is to leave the patient very drowsy, and the first desire is to sleep." "Doctor," said Henry, "when you talk it all seems for the moment quite reasonable, but you will pardon me for saying that, as soon as you stop, the whole thing appears to be such an incredible piece of nonsense that I have to pinch myself to be sure I am not dreaming." The doctor smiled.
"Well," said he, "I have been so long engaged in the practical application of the process that I confess I can't realize any element of the strange or mysterious about it.

To the eye of the philosopher nothing is wonderful, or else you may say all things are equally so.

The commonest and so-called simplest fact in the entire order of nature is precisely as marvellous and incomprehensible at bottom as the most uncommon and startling.

You will pardon me if I say that it is only to the unscientific that it seems otherwise.


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