Body and mind: their connection and mutual influence. Gulstonian lecture, Ausgabe 143

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Seite 109 - On earth there is nothing great but man, In man there is nothing great but mind.
Seite 133 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Seite 150 - But it is manifest that Plato, in his opinion of ideas, as one that had a wit of elevation situate as upon a cliff, did descry that forms were the true object of knowledge...
Seite 53 - the thoughts of men are " widened with the process of the suns," but that there are recurring cycles of improvement and decay.
Seite 53 - Whence come the savage snarl, the destructive disposition, the obscene language, the wild howl, the offensive habits, displayed by some of the insane? Why should a human being deprived of his reason ever become so brutal in character as some do, unless he has the brute nature within him?
Seite 108 - As physicians, we cannot afford to lose sight of the physical aspects of mental states, if we would truly comprehend the nature of mental disease, and learn to treat it with success. The metaphysician may, for the purposes of speculation, separate mind from body, and evoke the laws of its operation out of the depths of selfin.] UNITY OF BODY AND MIND.
Seite 161 - The colloidal is, in fact, a dynamical state of matter, the crystalloidal being the statical condition. The colloid possesses Energia. It may be looked upon as the probable primary source of the force appearing in the phenomena of vitality.
Seite iii - IX. Responsibility in Mental Disease. By HENRY MAUDSLEY, MD, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians ; Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in University College, London. I vol., I2mo.
Seite 161 - For the mineral forms of silicic acid, deposited from water, such as flint, are...
Seite 143 - We carry with us the wonders we seek without us: there is all Africa and her prodigies in us; we are that bold and adventurous piece of Nature, which he that studies wisely learns in a compendium what others labour at in a divided piece and endless volume.

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