...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.'...

...own experience is instructive 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...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...

...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;...

...Stuart Mill, who, at the age of nineteen, in 1826, feared the existential vacuum that overwhelmed him: 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...

...in his description of his condition in 1826 as akin to the "conviction of sin" preceding conversion: "I was in a dull state of nerves, such as everybody...pleasurable excitement; one of those moods when what is pleasant at other times, becomes insipid or indifferent; the state, I should think, in which converts...

...of crisis. This came in the autumn of 1826, when Mill, at age twenty, in "a dull state of nerves... one of those moods when what is pleasure at other times, becomes insipid or indifferent," awoke from the dream that dedication to the Benthamite goal of the greatest happiness for the greatest...

...interesting and animated existence. But the time came when I wakened from this as from a dream. It was 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 all...

...an interesting and animated 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...nerves, such as everybody is occasionally liable to 5 unsusceptible to enjoyment or pleasurable excitement 5 one of those moods when what is pleasure at...

...active in politics, in debating, in writing and publishing. At twenty he fell into a depression. It was the autumn of 1826. "I was in a dull state of nerves," he wrote, "such as everybody is occasionally liable to: unsusceptible to enjoyment or pleasurable excitement:...

...empiricism. " The time came," says the Autobiography, "when I awakened from all this as from a dream.* I was in a dull state of nerves, such as everybody is occasionally liable to ; unsusceptible to pleasure or enjoyment ; the state, I should think, in which converts to Methodism usually are, when...