The Physiology and Pathology of the MindAppleton, 1867 - 442 pages |
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acquired activity acute afferent nerve animal appear attack automatic become blood bodily body brain cause cerebellum cerebral hemispheres character child co-ordinate complex conception condition connexion consciousness consequence constitution convolutions convulsions corpora quadrigemina definite degeneration delirium delusion dementia derangement disease disorder display effect emotion energy epilepsy excited exhibited existence experience fact faculty feeling force function ganglionic cells give rise hallucinations human idea ideational idiots impressions impulse incoherent individual innate insanity instinct irritation kind less mania manifest matter medulla oblongata melancholia ment mental action metaphysical mind monomania moral morbid morbid action motor intuition movements muscles muscular necessary nerve nerve-cell nervous centres nervous element nervous system nutrition observation organic element painful paralysis particular passion patient physiological pia mater produced reaction reflex action relations residua result sensation sense sensibility sensory ganglia sometimes spinal centres spinal cord stimulus symptoms takes place things thought tion tissue unconscious volition
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Page 252 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 62 - To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual; give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding ; whence the Soul Reason receives, and Reason is her being, Discursive, or Intuitive: Discourse Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours, Differing but in degree, of kind the same.
Page 165 - The motion of our body follows upon the command of our will. Of this we are every moment conscious. But the means, by which this is effected; the energy, by which the will performs so extraordinary an operation; of this we are so far from being immediately conscious, that it must for ever escape our most diligent enquiry.
Page 62 - O Adam, one Almighty is, from whom. All things proceed, and up to him return, If not depraved from good, created all Such to perfection, one first matter all, Endued with various forms, various degrees Of substance, and, in things that live, of life...
Page 282 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
Page 185 - Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 298 - SO far from the position holding true, that great wit (or genius, in our modern way of speaking), has a necessary alliance with insanity, the greatest wits, on the contrary, will ever be found to be the sanest writers. It is impossible for the mind to conceive of a mad Shakspeare.
Page 282 - Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world; we bring impurity much rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That...
Page 86 - And therefore it was a good answer that was made by one who when they showed him hanging in a temple a picture of those who had paid their vows as having escaped shipwreck, and would have him say whether he did not now acknowledge the power of the gods,— "Aye," asked he again, "but where are they painted that were drowned, after their vows?
Page 69 - If an act became no easier after being done several times, if the careful direction of consciousness were necessary to its accomplishment on each occasion, it is evident that the whole activity of a lifetime might be confined to one or two deeds— that no progress could take place in development.