The Constitution of Man in Relation to the Natural LawsCassell, 1803 - 236 pages |
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... brain and mental character National brains and characters Effects of mixture of races Laws of hereditary transmission of mental qualities Are factitious or temporary conditions of the body hereditary ? Acquired habits hereditary ...
... brain and mental character National brains and characters Effects of mixture of races Laws of hereditary transmission of mental qualities Are factitious or temporary conditions of the body hereditary ? Acquired habits hereditary ...
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... brain in particular , to blunt all the higher feelings and faculties of the mind , and if religious emotions cannot be experienced with full effect by individuals so situated , the ascertainment of the nature , causes , and effects of ...
... brain in particular , to blunt all the higher feelings and faculties of the mind , and if religious emotions cannot be experienced with full effect by individuals so situated , the ascertainment of the nature , causes , and effects of ...
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... brain - it is better for him to have his life cut short , and his pain ended , than to have it protracted under the tortures of an organic existence , without a heart or without a brain , if such a state were possible — which , for this ...
... brain - it is better for him to have his life cut short , and his pain ended , than to have it protracted under the tortures of an organic existence , without a heart or without a brain , if such a state were possible — which , for this ...
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... if doubting the sufficiency of the evidence for their connection with those parts of the brain to which phrenolo- gists assign them.-ED. 36 CHAPTER III . THE FACULTIES IN OPERATION . SECT D 2 CHAP . II . ] MAN'S ADAPTATION TO NATURE . 35.
... if doubting the sufficiency of the evidence for their connection with those parts of the brain to which phrenolo- gists assign them.-ED. 36 CHAPTER III . THE FACULTIES IN OPERATION . SECT D 2 CHAP . II . ] MAN'S ADAPTATION TO NATURE . 35.
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... brain and nervous system were discovered before which , Man possessed no adequate means of becoming acquainted with his mental constitution and its adaptation to external circumstances and beings . Not till the year 1774 was the study ...
... brain and nervous system were discovered before which , Man possessed no adequate means of becoming acquainted with his mental constitution and its adaptation to external circumstances and beings . Not till the year 1774 was the study ...
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according action activity adapted animal faculties animal propensities appears arranged ascer benevolence bestowed body brain Cassell's causes cloth condition conduct consequences constitution creation Creator death desire discover disease Divine duty effects enjoy enjoyment evil exercise existence external objects feelings GEORGE COMBE gilt gratification happiness harmony higher sentiments ignorance Illustrated improvement individual inflict infringement instance institutions intellectual faculties intellectual laws intelligent intuitive knowledge JULIAN HAWTHORNE knowledge labour laws of nature live lower animals mankind marriage ment mind misery moral and intellectual moral law moral sentiments nations natural laws natural philosophy neglect obedience obey observation offender offspring operation organic laws organised pain parents perceive persons philosophy Phrenology physical laws pleasure possess practical present principle propen punishment qualities race regard relations religion render ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON selfish ship society suffering supremacy T. P. O'CONNOR tion transmitted vessels of wrath views vigour Vols W. W. GREENER
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Page 15 - ... also rewards and punishes actions. If, for example, the pain which we feel, upon doing what tends to the destruction of our bodies, suppose upon too near approaches to fire, or upon wounding ourselves, be appointed by the Author of nature to prevent our doing what thus tends to our destruction, this is altogether as much an instance of his punishing our actions, and consequently of our being under his government, as declaring by a voice from heaven that if we acted so, he would inflict such pain...
Page 15 - Nature's acting upon us every moment which we feel it, or to his having at once contrived and executed his own part in the plan of the world, makes no alteration as to the matter before us.
Page 104 - They say nay in a word, but they do so in deed ; for to the one they will gladly give a stipend of two hundred crowns by the year, and loth to offer to the other two hundred shillings. God that sitteth in heaven laugheth their choice to scorn, and rewardeth their liberality as it should. For he suffereth...
Page 212 - Never, perhaps, was witnessed a finer scene than on the deck of my little ship, when all hope of life had left us. Noble as the character of the British sailor is always allowed to be in cases of danger, yet I did not believe it to be possible that amongst forty-one persons not one repining word should have been uttered.