Sound mind, or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect / [John Haslam].

  • Haslam, John, 1764-1844.
Date:
1819
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Credit: Sound mind, or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect / [John Haslam]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    when defective: thus, if man had been created without hands, and, consequently, without the acute organ of touch, which resides in the extremities of these mem- bers, we must at least have been strangers to the cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, and the solemn temples” which he has reared. Had the upper extremi- ties of the human body terminated at the wrist, such a man as Phidias might have existed, but his occupation would have been unknown. Thus truncated, how would the fleet have been construct- ed which reaped the laurel at the Nile, at Copenhagen, and Trafalgar ? The eternal city could not have existed, nor would our own metropolis have had a being. If we reflect for an instant, we shall per- ceive that all the conveniences we enjoy>