There is a surface of restraint and orderly decency in the life as it is told here; beneath it, the wildness and fury of the books, where girls' legs are hacked off at the knees to make them suitable companions for aristocratic dwarfs; where a Cambridge intellect falls in love helplessly with quite an ordinary nurse; where poetry happens, from who knows where.
Furthermore, Origen also adopts the view that the human soul is essentially an intellect that falls in bodies and then becomes a soul with the necessary faculties to operate within a human body, yet the soul retains the ability to ascend and become an intellect again (On Principles I.4.1, I.8.1, II.6.4, II.9.7).
Lange deplored in his Medicina Mentis (1704; "Medicine of the Mind") that the disease at the root of Adam's fall is intellect (part I, chapter 1); its cure depends on prayer and catechetical tenets (I.2, II.2 8).
But in almost all theoretical works, the various feelings and emotions of the human heart and intellect were understood to fall into at least two categories: the more violent and self-regarding "passions" and "appetites" on the one hand, and the milder and more enlightened "interests," social "affections," and "moral sentiments" on the other (DeJean, 1997; Dixon, 2003; Hirschman, 1997).
That is a term that developed out of studies that show that some people were so character defective that they took pleasure in watching successful Jewish businessmen, intellects, doctors, and lawyers fall from their position of success to a bottomless hell.
The intellect of the party has fallen, the principles of the party have fallen.
You mustn't make it into a prison, the Fall being the intellects' science theory.
But as I learned in my interview with Donald, in order to appreciate art, the less you know the better -- as it is not a function of intellect, but of heart, like falling in love.
Earlier, I noted that Spinoza thinks infinitely many non-substantial objects exist: "From the necessity of the divine nature there must follow infinitely many things in infinitely many ways, i.e., everything which can fall under an infinite intellect" (Ip16).
A flirtation with the future Duke of Windsor followed, and Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, fell for her dazzling intellect (bedridden for long periods of time, Rogers read voluminously and became a classical scholar).
