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Darwins home in Kent ‘Downe House’ is today run by English heritage and is open to the public for an entrance fee of around a tenner. If anyone gets the opportunity I would recommend a visit, there were many indications of an illness very similar to ME. Darwin was mostly housebound for much of...

Aldous Huxley on Accidie aka melancholy, boredom, ennui, despair. Excerpts from "On the margin" ''The cœnobites of the Thebaid were subjected to the assaults of many demons. Most of these evil spirits cam furtively with the coming of night. But there was one, a fiend of deadly subtlety, who...