On the Connexion between Morbid Physical and Religious Phenomena

reasons for assigning to them a merely morbid and physical origin ; (4) to suggest means of prevention and cure. (1) By genuine remorse, according to the definition of it given by Clarendon, Bishop Hall, &c., and derived from the etymology of the word, is meant, " the keen pain or anguish excited by a sense of guilt; compunction for a vicious, or sinful act committed." Dr. Thomas Brown describes it as " the dreadful moral regret arising from the certainty that we have rendered ourselves unworthy of the lore of man and of the approbation of our God"?" the salutary influence of conscience, which, though it cannot restore innocence itself, may at least, by the images which it awakes, soften the mind to that repentance which is almost innocence under another form,"?" that terrible voice which it is impossible to fly, because it is with us wherever we may fly, and which we can still only in one manner; by acting so as to merit, not its silence only, but its applause."* St. Paul defines