...my condition. John Stuart Mill, in his Autobiography, thus describes a period of mental depression : I was in a dull state of nerves, such as everybody is occasionally liable to; ... the state, I should think, in which converts to Methodism usually are, when smitten by their first...

...existence. But the time came when I awakened from this as from a dream. It was in the autumn of 1826. I was in a dull state of nerves, such as everybody...pleasure at other times, becomes insipid or indifferent. ... In this frame of mind it occurred to me to put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all...

...condition. John Stuart Mill, in his "Autobiography," thus describes a period of mental depression : I was in a dull state of nerves, such as everybody is occasionally liable to; ... the state, I should think, in which converts to Methodism usually are, when smitten by their first...

...a detailed account in the Autobiography in the chapter on the "Mental Crisis." In his own words, he was in a "dull state of nerves, such as everybody...pleasure at other times becomes insipid or indifferent." It occurred to him to ask himself whether if "all the changes in institutions and opinions" which he...

...compared the sudden and total apathy and anomie into which he fell at the age of twenty to the state "in which converts to Methodism usually are, when smitten by their first 'conviction of si0.' ... I seemed to have nothing left to live for"; and he illustrated his condition by lines from...

...of inspiriting joy. He experienced — as the most moving passage of his Autobiography tells us — "one of those moods when what is pleasure at other times, becomes insipid or indifferent; the state ... in which converts to Methodism usually are, when smitten with their first 'conviction of sin.'...

...Mill in his Autobiography (1867). Mill's crisis, it should be noted, began with him "in the state ... in which converts to Methodism usually are, when smitten by their first 'conviction of sin.'"49 As in the "Age of Energy," so in the nearly three centuries preceding it, during which some...

...deaf pillows will discharge their secrets." Mill describes his state, as we have seen, as like that "in which converts to Methodism usually are, when smitten by their first conviction of sin" (interestingly, this is not in the original draft, ca. 18531856, but was presumably added in either...

...or, as some have argued, a quite rational but transient reaction to the gloom of a British winter:15 I was in a dull state of nerves, such as everybody...liable to; unsusceptible to enjoyment or pleasurable excitment; one of those moods when what is pleasure at other times, becomes insipid or indifferent;...

...in this regard. In a striking passage in his Autobiography he wrote: It was in the autumn of 1826. I was in a dull state of nerves, such as everybody is occasionally liable to. ... In this frame of mind, it occurred to me to put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that...