The Greyson Letters Author:Henry Rogers Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: full and your spoon going, that you have not enough for yourself! Well, well, a week or two hence will do; eat away just now; but I promise you I shall be surpri... more »sed and disappointed if other people's stomachs are not the better for your long fast. You are not the man to forget a thank- offering to Him who can so easily disjoin our blessings, and give us food without appetite, or appetite without food. Ever yours, E. E. H. G. LETTER II. TO THE SAME. Dec. 27, 1838. My Dear West, There is a peculiarity about our mental constitution as respects " association," which is worthy, I think, of more notice than metaphysicians have generally bestowed upon it. They have said much, and judiciously, on the principles and laws of suggestion in general, and many of the more remarkable facts which prove them. But I do not recollect that the fact, of which I have to-day had experience most painful, yet not unpleasing, has received the attention it deserves, though it has been sometimes touched upon. Such facts seem very instructive, both as aifording an indication of the beneficence with which our mental constitution is constructed, and a presumption of the indestructible vitality which probably belongs to every thought and emotion that has once been present to us, — " being graven as with a pen of iron" on the tablets of memory " forever." The fact to which I refer is this: — that while, from habit, those objects become indifferent to us which in themselves are most likely to excite vivid associations with any of thegreat events of our past life, and which immediately after the occurrence of such events, did so to a pitch of rapture or agony, the most trivial of such objects that happens to have lain concealed, and is suddenly discovered after a lapse of years, shall prove to ...« less