RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1838-1839]. Notebook M excised part of pp. 83-84. CUL-DAR53.1.B18. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Text prepared and edited by John van Wyhe 6.2025. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR53.1 contains notes, photographs, and drawings for Darwin's book The expression of the emotions.
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The possibility of two quite separate trains going on in the mind as in double consciousness may really explain what habit is — In the habitual train of thought one idea, calls up other, & the consciousness of double individual is not awakened.— The habitual individual remembers things done in the other
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Aug. 16th Anger Rage in worst form is described by Spenser (Faery Queene. (Descript of Queen) O of Hell Cant IV or V.) as pale & trembling. & not as flushing & with muscles rigid.— How is this? (dealt with p. 241)63
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63. This particular reference not positively traced, but see The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene: With Other Poems of Chaucer and Spenser, William P. Nimmo, ed., Ballantyne, Edinburgh, 1870, Book I, Canto IV, verse 33, p. 326: "As ashes pale of hue, and seeming dead, And in his dagger still his hand he held, Trembling through hasty rage, when cholor in him swell'd."
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