The physiology of mind : being the first part of a third edition, revised enlarged and in great part rewritten, of "The physiology and pathology of mind" / by Henry Maudsley.

  • Maudsley, Henry, 1835-1918.
Date:
1878
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Credit: The physiology of mind : being the first part of a third edition, revised enlarged and in great part rewritten, of "The physiology and pathology of mind" / by Henry Maudsley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    THE PHYSIOLOGY OF MIND CHAPTER I. ON THE METHOD OF THE STUDY OF HIND. Ich sag' es dir : cin Kerl der speculirt, 1st wie ein Tliier, auf diirrer Heide Von cinem boscn Geist im Kreis hcrum gcfuhrt, Und rings umhcr licgt schune griine Wcide. Faust. The right estimate of his relations to external nature har ever been to man a matter of difficulty and uncertainty In the savage state of his infancy he feels himself sc little in the presence of nature's vastness, so helpless in conflict with its resistless forces, so overawed by the spec- tacle of its serenely inexorable course, that he falls down in abject prostration before its various powers The earth of a sudden heaves beneath his trembling feet and his shattered dwellings bury him in their ruins; the swelling waters overpass their accustomed boundaries and indifferently sweep away his property or his life; the furious hurricane ruthlessly destroys the labours of years; and famine or pestilence, regardless of his streaming eyes and piteous prayers, stalks in desolating march through a panic-stricken people. In the deep conscious- ness of his individual powerlessncss he falls down in an