Electrical-psychology, or, The electrical philosophy of mental impressions, including a new philosophy of sleep and of consciousness / from the works of J.B. Dods and J.S. Grimes ; revised and edited by H.G. Darling.

  • Grimes J. Stanley (James Stanley), 1807-1903.
Date:
1851
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Credit: Electrical-psychology, or, The electrical philosophy of mental impressions, including a new philosophy of sleep and of consciousness / from the works of J.B. Dods and J.S. Grimes ; revised and edited by H.G. Darling. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    inductive process bas been completely successful— when many of the organs of the operator have com- municated their motions to the corresponding organs of the subject, and have established such a con- nection that a movement of the operator is immediately followed by a similar movement of the subject, and a feeling of the operator's mind is followed by a similar feeling in the mind of the subject—this is sympathy; and by the word sympathy is meant a condition of the subject induced by the operator in consequence of a connection and communication between them;—a con- dition which is the effect of a similar condition of the operator. The condition of the operator is the cause, and the condition of the subject is the effect. The currents of force from the organs of the operator to the organs of the subject are the means by which the effect is produced. The insulation of the organs of the subject was an obstacle to the currents of the operator; the process of etherean induction removed or overcame the obstacle; the etherean force of the operator, after having first moved the organs of the operator himself, proceeded to the corresponding organs of the subject, and moved them in a similar manner, though in a slighter degree. This is sympathy in a strictly philosophical sense. Sometimes it is so perfect that the very same ideas, thoughts, images, colours, forms, and sounds, which occupy the mind of the operator, are made to occupy the mind of the subject by sympathy. The operator can put another person into communica- tion with the subject, and then the subject will sympa- thize with him also in the same manner, and upon the