Man, moral and physical, or, The influence of health and disease on religious experience / by the Rev. Joseph H. Jones.

  • Jones, J. H. (Joseph Huntington), 1797-1868.
Date:
1861
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    of communication between the mind and the body— Their branches or ramifications have a sort of omnipre- sence in the animal fabric—Sympathy and sympathetic nerve—What constitutes the nervous system—No per- ceptible change in the size, colour, or shape of the nerves when diseased—Nature of the nervous force — Not iden- tical with electricity—How the communion between the brain, spinal marrow, and nerves is effected, we do not know—Not necessary to our happiness to know the essence of mind and matter—The morbid results of the union of the two, called nervous, a penalty for this abuse of the blessings of civilized life—Nervous diseases little known among Bayages—Medicine not extensively cultivated among the ancients—Less occasion for the study and practice—How far was the great age of man, originally, the result of physical causes—Dr. Cheyne's opinion of the effect of luxurious, intemperate, and licen- tious habits—The records of prisons and almshouses— Idiotic in a Massachusetts' Charity — Juvenile delin- quents at Parkhurst, England—Itemark of Mr. Cole- ridge. Pages 25—35. The Sacred Writings—The comparative silence of the Scriptures on the subject easily accounted for— Modern discoveries of physiology not found in the Bible, but exemplifications of their truth in the experience and exercises of the religious—The case of Saul—of David, as exhibited in many of his psalms—Of the disciples in the garden of Gethsemane—The Apostle Paul—Quota- tions from serious minded heathen by the Fathers— Cicero on human nature—Mixture of Christianity ami Persian philosophy in the system of the Manicheans of the third century. Pages 35—39.