Roger Chillingworth that “A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part” (Hawthorne 204). This quote means that visible human sickness is but a reflection of one’s inner state and that the human body, which is susceptible to emotional and spiritual suffering, displays physical symptoms that indicates an ailing inner psychological state. Some examples that demonstrate this are the psychological disorder of…
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