Principles of mental physiology with their applications to the training and discipline of the mind and the study of its morbid conditions |
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according acquired action activity animals appears association attention automatic become believe body Brain brought called cause centres Cerebrum character common complete condition connected consciousness consists constitution continued course depends determined direction distinct effect effort Emotional entirely evidence example excited exercise exerted existence experience expression external eyes fact feeling fixed force give given habit hand Human idea immediately impressions individual influence Intellectual kind knowledge less manifested manner matter means mechanism mental mind mode Moral motives movements muscular nature nerves Nervous notion object observation occurred once operations ordinary organs original particular passed performed persons phenomena Physical possessed present previously principle produced question reason regard relation remarkable result seems sensations sense Sensorial side sleep succession suggestion termed thought tion train truth Volitional whilst whole Writer
Popular passages
Page 637 - I have of late— but wherefore I know not— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 269 - ... a person on business from Porlock, and detained by him above an hour, and on his return to his room, found, to his no small surprise and mortification, that though he still retained some vague and dim recollection of the general purport of the vision, yet, with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images, all the rest had passed away like the images on the surface of a stream into which a stone has been cast, but, alas! without the after restoration of the latter!
Page xlv - Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.
Page 509 - Poems to which any value can be attached were never produced on any variety of subjects but by a man who, being possessed of more than usual organic sensibility, had also thought long and deeply.
Page 139 - But when dialogue of peculiar animation was in progress, spirit seemed to triumph altogether over matter — he arose from his couch and walked up and down the room, raising and lowering his voice, and as it were acting the parts.
Page 645 - ... dedicated to the exaltation of human nature in that way in which God had best fitted me to promote so great an object, it was likely to stand a memorial to my children of hopes defeated, of baffled efforts, of materials uselessly accumulated, of foundations laid that were never to support a superstructure, — of the grief and the ruin of the architect.
Page 269 - Besides, it was talk not flowing anywhither like a river, but spreading everywhither in inextricable currents and regurgitations like a lake or sea; terribly deficient in definite goal or aim, nay often in logical intelligibility ; what you were to believe or do, on any earthly or heavenly thing, obstinately refusing to appear from it. So that, most times, you felt logically lost; swamped near to drowning in this tide of ingenious vocables, spreading out boundless as if to submerge the world.
Page 272 - All this fires my soul, and, provided I am not disturbed, my subject enlarges itself, becomes methodised and defined, and the whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind, so that I can survey it, like a fine picture or a beautiful statue, at a glance. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once (gleich alles zusammen).
Page 509 - ... we discover what is really important to men, so, by the repetition and continuance of this act, our feelings will be connected with important subjects, till at length, if we be originally possessed of much sensibility, such habits of mind will be produced that, by obeying blindly and mechanically the impulses of those habits, we shall describe objects, and utter sentiments, of such a nature, and in such connection with each other, that the understanding of the reader must necessarily be in some...
Page 643 - That, as the creative state of the eye increased, a sympathy seemed to arise between the waking and the dreaming states of the brain in one point — that whatsoever I happened to call up and to trace by a voluntary act upon the darkness was very apt to transfer itself to my dreams...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Principles of mental physiology with their applications to the training and discipline of the mind and the study of its morbid conditions |
| Author | William Benjamin Carpenter |
| Publisher | D. Appleton & Company, 1883 |
| Length | 737 pages |
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