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Merlo, And Again Concealed The Fact Until The End Of The Combat, When He
Asked The Judges To Excuse Him From Jousting Further That Day, As His
Right Hand, Which He Had Previously Sprained, Was Again Dislocated, And
Caused Him Terrible Suffering; And Well It Might, For The Flesh Was
Lacerated And The Whole Arm Seemed Paralyzed.
The Wounds Received The 28Th Of July Were, Unfortunately, Sufficiently
Healed By The 6Th Of August To Enable Him To Enter The Lists With The
Unhappy Esberte De Claramonte, An Aragonese. "Would To God," Exclaims
The Chronicler, "He Had Never Come Here!" In The Ninth Encounter
Quinones' Lance Entered His Antagonist'S Left Eye And Penetrated The
Brain. The Luckless Knight Broke His Lance In The Ground, Was Lifted
From His Saddle By The Force Of The Blow, And Fell Dead Without Uttering
A Word; "And His Face Seemed Like The Face Of One Who Had Been Dead Two
Hours." The Aragonese And Catalans Present Bewailed His Death Loudly,
And Quinones Was Grieved In His Soul At Such A Great Misfortune. Every
Possible Honor Was Shown The Dead Knight, And The Welfare Of His Soul
Was Not Forgotten. Master Anton, Quinones' Confessor, And The Other
Priests Were Sent For To Administer The Sacraments, And Quinones Begged
Them To Chant The _Responsorium_[8] Over The Body, As Was Customary In
The Church, And Do In all Respects As Though He Himself Were The Dead
Man. The Priest Replied That The Church Did Not Consider As Sons Those
Who Died In Such Exercises, For They Could Not Be Performed Without
Mortal Sin, Neither Did She Intercede For Their Souls; In Proof Whereof
He Referred To The Canonical Law, Cap. _De Torneamentis_.[9] However, At
The Earnest Request Of Quinones, Messer Anton Went With A Letter To The
Bishop Of Astorga To Ask Leave To Bury Claramonte In Holy Ground,
Quinones Promising If It Were Granted To Take The Dead Knight To Leon
And Bury Him In His Own Family Chapel. Meanwhile, They Bore The Body To
The Hermitage Of Santa Catalina, Near The Bridge Of Orbigo, And There It
Remained Until Night, When Messer Anton Returned Without The Desired
License; So They Buried Claramonte In Unconsecrated Ground Near The
Hermitage, With All Possible Honor And Amid The Tears Of The Assembled
Knights. This Mournful Event Does Not Seem, However, To Have Made A Very
Deep Impression, For That Same Afternoon The Jousting Was Continued.
The Remaining Days Were Marked By No Unusual Occurrence: Several Were
Seriously But Not Fatally Wounded, And One By One The Defenders Of The
Pass Were Disabled; So That When The 9Th Of August, The Last Day Of The
Jousts, Arrived, Sancho De Ravenal Was The Only One Of The Ten Defenders
Who Was Able To Enter The Lists. He Maintained The Pass That Day Against
Two Knights, And Then The Jousts Were Declared Ended. When The Decision
Was Known There Was Great Rejoicing And Blowing Of Trumpets, And The
Lists Were Illuminated With Torches. The Judges Returned The Spurs Which
Still Hung In The Stand To The Owners Who Through Lack Of Time Had Not
Been Able To Joust. Quinones And Eight Of His Companions (Lope De Aller
Was Confined To His Bed By His Wounds) Entered The Lists In The Same
Manner And Order As On The First Day, And Halting Before The Judges
Quinones Addressed Them As Follows: "It Is Known To Your Honors How I
Presented Myself Here Thirty Days Ago With These Companions, And The
Cause Of My So Doing Was To Terminate The Captivity In Which Until This
Moment I Was To A Very Virtuous Lady, In Token Of Which I Have Worn This
Volume 26 Title 1 (Lippincott'S Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science) Pg 123Iron Collar Continually Every Thursday. The Condition Of My Ransom Was,
As You Know, Three Hundred Lances Broken Or Guarding This Pass Thirty
Days, Awaiting Knights And Gentlemen Who Should Free Me From Said
Captivity; And Whereas I Believe, Honorable Sirs, That I Have Fulfilled
Everything According To The Terms Set Down At The Beginning, I Therefore
Beg You Will Command Me To Remove This Iron Collar In Testimony Of My
Liberty."
The Judges Answered Briefly As Follows: "Virtuous Gentleman And Knight,
After Hearing Your Declaration, Which Seems Just And True, We Hereby
Declare Your Enterprise Completed And Your Ransom Paid; And Be It Known
To All Present That Of The Three Hundred Lances Mentioned In The
Agreement But Few Remain Yet To Be Broken, And These Would Not Have
Remained Unbroken Had It Not Been For Lack Of Adversaries. We Therefore
Command The King-At-Arms And The Herald To Remove The Collar From Your
Neck And Declare You From This Time Henceforth Free From Your Enterprise
And Ransom." | The King-At-Arms And The Herald Then Descended From The
Stand, And In The Presence Of The Notaries With Due Solemnity Took The
Collar From Quinones' Neck In Fulfilment Of The Judges' Command.
During The Thirty Days' Jousting Sixty-Eight Knights Had Entered The
Lists: Of These, One, Messer Arnoldo De La Floresta Bermeja (Arnold Von
Rothwald?), Was A German; One An Italian, Messer Luis De Aversa; One
Breton,[10] Three Valencians, One Portuguese, Thirteen Aragonese, Four
Catalans, And The Remaining Forty-Four Were From The Castiles And Other
Parts Of Spain. The Number Of Courses Run Was Seven Hundred And
Twenty-Seven, And One Hundred And Sixty-Six Lances Were Broken. Quinones
Was Afterward Killed By Gutierre Quijada, One Of The Knights Who Took
Part In The Passo Honroso, And With Whom He Seems To Have Had Some Kind
Of A Feud. Quinones' Sword May Still Be Seen At Madrid In The Royal
Armory, No. 1917.
T.F. Crane.
Automatism.
Concluding Paper.
A Few Months Ago, Walking Along Fifteenth Street, I Came Up Behind A
Friend And Said, "Good-Morning." No Answer. "Good-Morning, Sir," A
Little Louder.--"Oh, Excuse Me: I Did Not Hear You The First Time."--"
How Then Did You Know That I Had Spoken Twice?" My Friend Was
Nonplussed, But What Had Happened Was This: On My First Speaking The
Impulse Of The Voice Had Fallen Upon His Ear And Started A Nerve-Wave
Which Had Struggled Up As Far As The Lower Apparatus At The Base Of The
Brain, And, Passing Through This, Had Probably Even Reached The Higher
Nerve-Centres In The Surface Of The Cerebrum, Near To Which
Consciousness Resides, But Not In Sufficient Force To Arouse
Consciousness. When, However, The Attention Was Excited By My Second
Address, It Perceived The First Faint Impulse Which Had Been Registered
Volume 26 Title 1 (Lippincott'S Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science) Pg 124Upon The Protoplasm Of The Nerve-Centres, Although Unfelt. Probably Most
Of My Readers Have Had A Similar Experience. A Word Spoken, But Not
Consciously Heard, Has A Moment Afterward Been Detected By An Effort As
Distinctly Conscious As That Made By The Man Who Is Attempting To
Decipher Some Old Faint Manuscript. This Incident And Its Explanation
Will Serve To Illustrate The Relation Which Seems To Exist Between
Consciousness And Sensation, And Also Between Consciousness And The
General Mental Actions.
It Will Perhaps Render Our Thinking More Accurate If We Attempt To Get A
Clear Idea Just Here As To What Consciousness Is And What It Is Not.
Various Definitions Of The Term Have Been Given, But The Simplest And
Truest Seems To Be That It Is A Knowledge Of The Present Existence Of
Self, And Perhaps Also Of Surrounding Objects, Although It Is
Conceivable That A Conscious Person Might Be Shut Off From All Contact
With The External World By Abolition Of The Senses. Consciousness Is
Certainly Not What The Philosopher And The Theologian Call The Ego, Or
The Personality Of The Individual. A Blow On The Head Puts An End For
The Time Being To Consciousness, But Not To The Man'S Personality.
Neither Is Consciousness The Same As The Sense Of Personal Identity,
Although It Is Closely Connected With It. The Conviction Of A Man That
He Is The Same Person Through The Manifold Changes Which Occur In Him As
The Successive Years Go On Is Evidently Based On Consciousness And
Memory. This Is Well Illustrated By Some Very Curious Cases In Which The
Sense Or Knowledge Of Personal Identity Has Been Completely Lost. Not
Long Ago An Instance Of Such Complete Loss Was Recorded By Doctor
Hewater (_Hospital Gazette_, November, 1879). The Gentleman Who Was The
Subject Of This Loss Found Himself Standing Upon The Depot-Platform In
Belaire City, Ohio, Utterly Ignorant Of Who He Was Or Where He Came From
Or Where He Was Going To. He Had A Little Money In His Pocket, And In
His Hand A Small Port-Manteau Which Contained A Pair Of Scissors And A
Change Of Linen. He Was Well Dressed, And On Stating At The Nearest
Hotel His Strange Condition And Asking For A Bed, Was Received As A
Guest. In The Evening He Went Out And Attended A Temperance Lecture.
Excited By The Eloquence Of The Speaker, He Was Seized With An
Uncontrollable Impulse, Rushed From The Room And Began To Smash With A
Club The Windows Of A Neighboring Tavern. The Roughs Ran Out Of The
Saloon And Beat Him Very Badly, Breaking His Arm: This Brought Him To
The Police-Station, And Thence To The Hospital. For Months Every Effort
Was Made To Identify Him, But At The Date Of Reporting Without Avail. He
Was Known In The Hospital As "Ralph," That Name Having Been Found On His
Underclothing. His Knowledge Upon All Subjects Unconnected With His
Identity Is Correct: His Mental Powers Are Good, And He Has Shown
Himself Expert At Figures And With A Pen. For A Long Time It Was Thought
That He Was Feigning, But Every One About Him Was Finally Convinced That
He Is What He Says He Is--Namely, A Man Without Knowledge Of His
Personal Identity. This Curious Case, Which Is By No Means Unparalleled
In The Annals Of Psychological Medicine, Shows How Distinct Memory Is
From Consciousness. Memory Of The Past Was In Ralph Entirely Abolished
So Far As Concerned His Own Personality, But Consciousness Was Perfect,
And The Results Of Previous Mental Training Remained, As Is Shown By His
Use Of Figures. It Was As Though There Was A Dislocation Between
Consciousness And The Memory Of Self.
The Distinctness Of Consciousness From Memory Is Also Shown By Dreams.
Events Which Have Passed Are Often Recalled During The Unconsciousness
Of Sleep. The Curious Although Common Carrying Of The Memory Of A Dream
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