The Trinity times., 1855-08-18
Is There any Forgetting Z

DR.. Rush tells Us when he was called upon
to attend. on their death beds, aged Swedes,
who Er forty, llny, and sixty years, had lost
the use OF !her native tongue, the long sus-
pended faculty would be recalled in approach
ing death, and they would talk, pray and
sing in Swedish, DR., johnson, also, when
it came to his turn to die, spoke not in the
march of his own majestic rheloric--passed
by even the cadenees Of those Latin hymns
| in which he once had SO much loved to
dwell-but was heard with his sinking voice
muttering ehd's prayer which he had
learned on his mothers knee Strange. in
deed, is the providence, and yet SO wisely
illustrative of the absence of time as an ele
ment in the divine economy, which thus
brings together the two extreme points OF
human histury-br,h and death! This same
remarkable quality is thus touched upon by
| Cvleridge:
"In Roman Catholic town in Germany
young woman of four or FIVE and twenty,
who could neither read nor write, was seized
with a nervous fever, during which she con-
,inued necessarily talking Latin, Greek. and
Hebrew, in very pompcus tones, and with
the most distinct enunciation. The case had
attracted the particular attention OF young
| physician, and by his statement many emf
nent psychologists and physcologists visited
the town, aud examined the case on the
spot. Sheets full OF her rawlings were taken
down from her mouth, and were found to
consist of sentences coherent and ineligible
each for itself, but with little or no connec
ton with each other All trick or consplra-
cy was out of the question. Not only had
| the young woman ever been harmless, sim.
pie creature, but she was evidently laboring
with nervous fever. In a town in which she
had been a resident for many years as ser
want, in different families, no solution presen
ted itself. The young physician, however,
determined to try her past life step by step !;
for the patient herself was incapable of re-
turning q rational answer. He at length
succeeded in discovering the place where
her parents had lived; travelled thither !;
found them dead, but an uncle surviving, and
from him learned that the patient had been
chari,ably taken in by an old Protestant
pastor, at nine years old, and had remained
with him some years, even till the old mans
death. With great difficulty he discovered
a niece of the pastor, of whom anxious enqul-
ries were made concerning his habits, and
the solution Of the phenomenon was soon
obtained. For it appeared it had been the
old mans custom for years to walk up and
down passage Of his house into which the
kitchen door opened, and to read to himself
with loud voice out Of his favorite books.
A considerable number Of these were stii in
the niece's possession, and the physician
succeeded in identifying SO many passages
with those taken down at the young woman g
bed side, that no doubt could remain ia any
rational mind, concerning the true origin Of
the impression made on her nervous system.
This authenticated case furnishes both
proof and instance, that relics of sensation
may exist for an indefinite time in latent
style, in the very anne order in which they
were originally impressed; and as we can.
not nationally suppose the feverish state OF
the brain to act in any other way than as a
stin ulus, this fact (snd il would not be diff
cult to adduce several of the same kind) con-
tributes to make it even probable that
thoughts are in themselves imperishable,
and that if the intelligibe faculty should be
| rendered more comprehensive, il would re-
suire only different and appos toned organ
izaton-the body celestial instead of the body
tsrrts,riai-to bring before every human
,ocl the collective experience Of its whole
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