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p. 157

CXVII. HOW A MAN PREVIOUSLY DERANGED IN HIS INTELLECTS, BUT AFTERWARDS BECOMING SANE.

When they would symbolise a man previously deranged in his intellects, but afterwards becoming sane, and bringing a degree of regularity into his life, they depict a SYRINX; for it is soothing, and calls to remembrance things that have been pleasurably done; and it produces a very regulated sound.


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