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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    very difFerently shaped, and strongly in- dicate an ulterior destination. Man possesses language, the instrument of thought, the vehicle of intelligible com- munication ; — and he is gifted with the hand, to record the subjects of his ex- perience, to fabricate his contrivances, and to rear the durable monuments of his piety and splendour. Thus, he is rapidly progressive, his mind becomes t>pulent from the intellectual treasures of his an- cestors, and, in his turn, he bequeaths to posterity the legacy of wisdom. His comprehension of numbers, on which the nature of time is founded, enable him to revert to the transactions of dis- tant ages, and to invest faded events with the freshness of immediate perception. He alone can embalm the past, and wel-