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... the body which it inhabits . " And , " There is not the least reason to suppose that any of our faculties , but those which connect us with external objects , or direct the movements 12 THE BRAIN THE ORGAN OF THE MIND .
... the body which it inhabits . " And , " There is not the least reason to suppose that any of our faculties , but those which connect us with external objects , or direct the movements 12 THE BRAIN THE ORGAN OF THE MIND .
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George Combe. connect us with external objects , or direct the movements of our bodies , act by material organs at all ; " that is to say , that feeling , fancy , and reflection , are acts so purely men- tal , that they have no connexion ...
George Combe. connect us with external objects , or direct the movements of our bodies , act by material organs at all ; " that is to say , that feeling , fancy , and reflection , are acts so purely men- tal , that they have no connexion ...
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... direct opposi- tion to fact . On this subject , I shall confine myself to the statement of a very few instances , merely in illustration . Of folie raisonnante PINEL thus speaks : - " Hospitals for the insane are never without some ...
... direct opposi- tion to fact . On this subject , I shall confine myself to the statement of a very few instances , merely in illustration . Of folie raisonnante PINEL thus speaks : - " Hospitals for the insane are never without some ...
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... direct proportion to the capacity of the mind . We ought not to suppose , however , that every man having a large head is necessarily a person of superior intelligence , for there are many cases of an augmentation of the volume of the ...
... direct proportion to the capacity of the mind . We ought not to suppose , however , that every man having a large head is necessarily a person of superior intelligence , for there are many cases of an augmentation of the volume of the ...
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... direct facts and physiological authorities , we have come to the same conclusion regarding the brain , that vigour of function bears a relation , other circumstances being equal , to size in the organ . From these premises , it follows ...
... direct facts and physiological authorities , we have come to the same conclusion regarding the brain , that vigour of function bears a relation , other circumstances being equal , to size in the organ . From these premises , it follows ...
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Page 428 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. « Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide : If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
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Page 552 - By the imagination we place ourselves in his situation, we conceive ourselves enduring all the same torments, we enter as it were into his body, and become in some measure the same person with him, and thence form some idea of his sensations, and even feel something which, though weaker in degree, is not altogether unlike them.
Page 344 - ... for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another, ideas, wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.
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Page 290 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Page 326 - ... vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt: the...
Page 308 - His soul, proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way; Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear...