But his [guide's] habit of silence gained upon him day by day, and was infecting us. External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty! [The team wander through endless pitch-dark passages somewhere in the bowels of the Earth]
Saturday 4 January 2014
A Journey into the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne Chapter 26 The Worst Peril Of All
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