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Quotation from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
“a man who is very sober, and of a right understanding in all other things, may in one particular be as frantic as any in Bedlam”
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, Ch. XI, §13 (Project Gutenberg #10615)
Locke describes what later psychiatry would call a circumscribed or monomaniacal delusion, citing those who think themselves made of glass.
Citation: "a man who is very sober, and of a right understanding in all other things, may in one particular be as frantic as any in Bedlam" — John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, Ch. XI, §13 (Project Gutenberg #10615). (id an-essay-concerning-human-understanding-q5)
Portrait: Portrait of John Locke, Godfrey Kneller, Public domain.
