Reason and mental health

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Often appears with: uncertainty of reason · reason and the intellect · medicine, disease, and healing · justice as a virtue · addison’s *spectator* design

Usually: commentary or gloss (1) · crisis of belief (1) · detachment (1) · skepticism (1)

Life of Johnson, Volume 1 secondary

James Boswell · Biography composed and written during Boswell’s lifetime (Life of Johnson covering Johnson’s life, as documented in the volumes).
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Boswell discusses Johnson’s critical remarks about Addison’s design and includes observations on Johnson’s health and intellectual agitation, including his view that reason’s continuation is uncertain.

[229] See *post*, Oct. 6, 1769, and Boswell's *Hebrides*, Aug. 15, 1773. [230] In his *Life of Shenstone* he writes:--'From school Shenstone was sent to Pembroke College in Oxford, a society which for half a century has been eminent for English poetry and elegant literature. Here it appears that he found delight and advantage; for he continued his name in the book ten years, though he took no degree.' Johnson's *Wor…