The subconscious self and its relation to education and health / by Louis Waldstein.

  • Waldstein, Louis, 1853-1915.
Date:
1905
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Credit: The subconscious self and its relation to education and health / by Louis Waldstein. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    perception and upon the receptivity of the brain. These qualities are native, born with the individual, and are comparatively constant, because they are variable only in degree and subjected only to change in the physical condi- tions. I have excluded the examination of such inherent differences ; for it is the nature of the impressions themselves, and their effect upon the individual, so important in man's life, for pleasure and for pain, that form the subject of these considerations. When we speak of the education of the child, we mean generally the effort to provide a store of impressions which are consciously received and retained for future use. When the world's educators treat of culture^ they apply this term to the use which is made of precepts inculcated and consciously added to that part of our men- tal personality which again is the conscious self. But while the parent and the teacher, the moral and political educators, are addressing but one small part of the individual, everything that surrounds youth, every sensation from his