Wherever we follow his steps local tradition has preserved the memory of rude assaults of the tempter which he had to undergo.
It is no doubt useless to recall here the elementary fact that if manners change with the times, man himself is quite as strangely modified.

If, according to education, and the manner of life, such or such a sense may develop an acuteness which confounds common experience--hearing in the musician, touch with the blind, etc .-- we may estimate by this how much sharper certain senses may have been then than now.

Several centuries ago visual delusion was with adults what it is now with children in remotest country parts.

A quivering leaf, a nothing, a breath, an unexplained sound creates an image which they see and in the reality of which they believe absolutely.

Man is all of a piece; the hyperaesthesia of the will presupposes that of the sensibility, one is conditioned on the other, and it is this which makes men of revolutionary epochs so much greater than nature.