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“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.”
Meaning & context
Holmes’s narrator links mental breakdown with a mind pushed beyond its capacity, reflecting a nineteenth-century literary-medical way of reasoning about distress.
Source details
Elsie Venner, represented by Project Gutenberg #2696 and corroborated by Gutenberg’s Holmes quotation index. The sentence belongs to nineteenth-century literary and medical-philosophical discourse; it is not current psychiatric guidance, diagnosis or a clinically validated rule.