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Once I stopped watching television and listening. to the radio at the end of
1990, "they" had to find other ways of committing abuses.. So they took what
must be for them a tried and tested route; they get. at you by subversion of
those around you. Since they. wouldn't be able to do that with my family or
friends, that meant getting at people. in the workplace to be their
mouthpieces and. do their dirty work for them.
They supplied my employers. in Oxford with details from what was going on in
my. private life, and what I and other people had said at my home and
accommodation in. Oxford. So people at work repeated verbatim words which
had been said in my home, and repeated what I'd been doing recently.. Often
the most trivial things, the ones from your domestic life,. are the ones
which hurt. most. One manager in particular at Oxford continuously abused me
for ten months with verbal sexual abuse, swearing, and threats. to terminate
my. employment. After ten months I was forced to seek psychiatric help and
start taking medication, and was away from work for two. months. I spoke
later with a. solicitor about what had happened at that company; he advised
it was only possible to take. action if you had left the company as a result
of harassment, and such. an action would have to be started very soon after
leaving.
Over a year later the same manager. picked on another new worker, with even
more serious results; that employee tried to. commit suicide with an
overdose as a result of the ill-treatment, and was forced. to leave his job.
But he didn't take action against the company, either.. Abuse at work is
comparable to that elsewhere in that. tangible evidence is difficult to
produce, and the abusers will always have their denials. ready when
challenged. And even if a court accepts what you say happened, it. still
remains to prove that abuse. causes the type of breakdown I had at the end
of 1992.. In a recent case before a British court, a former member of the
Army brought a case against others who. had maltreated him ten years
previously.. Although the court accepted that abuse had occurred, it did not
agree that. depressive illness necessarily followed, and denied justice to
the. plaintiff.
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another. And since he cannot exist without this knowledge, I wish that,
before entering on deeper researches into nature, he would consider her both
seriously and at leisure, that he would reflect upon himself also, and
knowing what proportion there is... Let man then contemplate the whole of
nature in her full and grand majesty, and turn his vision from the low
objects which surround him. Let him gaze on that brilliant light, set like
an eternal lamp to illumine the universe; let the earth appear to him a
point in comparison with the vast circle described by the sun; and let him
wonder at the fact that this vast circle is itself but a very fine point in
comparison with that described by the stars in their revolution round the
firmament. But if our view be arrested there, let our imagination pass
beyond; it will sooner exhaust the power of conception than nature that of
supplying material for conception. The whole visible world is only an
imperceptible atom in the ample bosom of nature. No idea approaches it. We
may enlarge our conceptions beyond an imaginable space; we only produce
atoms in comparison with the reality of things. It is an infinite sphere,
the centre of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere. In short, it
is the greatest sensible mark of the almighty power of God that imagination
loses itself in that thought.
Returning to himself, let man consider what he is in comparison with all
existence; let him regard himself as lost in this remote corner of nature;
and from the little cell in which he finds himself lodged, I mean the
universe, let him estimate at their true value the earth, kingdoms, cities,
and himself. What is a man in the Infinite?
But to show him another prodigy equally astonishing, let him examine the
most delicate things he knows