Sound mind; or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect / By 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 / By John Haslam. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    superior to that of human beings ; still it does not appear, from any manifestations they afford, that it is actively exercised, as with ourselves, but occasionally ex- cited by the returrence of the object which originally produced it. Language is the pencil which marks the bold out- line, and lends a colouring to our dif- ferent perceptions; and with this boon man is exclusively gifted. A rational curiosity will prompt the reader to in- quire, in what our perceptions consist independently of the language in which we ordinarily clothe them. In the in- stance of optical perception, we know that it is something which is retained by the memory, and may be traced by the hand, so as to convince others that it is