Remarks on the disorders of literary men, or, An inquiry into the means of preventing the evils usually incident to sedentary and studious habits.

Date:
1825
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    CHAPTER II. The Influence of Study and habitual Meditation on the different Organs of the Animal Economy, and on the Intellectual Facidties. SECTION I. In considering the influence of study and meditation on the corporeal and the intel- lectual faculties, it is necessary to premise some general remarks on those functions which constitute life. These have been di- vided into animal and organic. The organic functions, or the functions of organic life, be- long to man considered as an individual ; such are respiration, digestion, nutrition, secre- tion, circulation, &c. ; these belong to us in common with inferior animals,.and with veg- etables. The animal functions connect us with objects around us ; such are sensation, perception, motion, &c. ; the centre of these is the brain. These two systems or lives, though thus distinguishable, are closely connected with, and dependent on each other. Hence the in-