Remarks on the Influence of Mental Cultivation and Mental Excitement Upon Health |
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Page 144 - ... motive to industry, together with a care to husband his earnings and to avoid unnecessary expense. The poor man who has gained a taste for good books will in all likelihood become thoughtful; and when you have given the poor a habit of thinking, you have conferred on them a much greater favour than by the gift of a large sum of money, since you have put them in possession of the principle of all legitimate prosperity...
Page 181 - I think I may say, that of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education.
Page iii - The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.
Page 87 - ... and who do not learn to read and write until the constitution begins to be consolidated, but who enjoy the benefit of a good physical education, very soon surpass, in their studies, those who commence earlier and read numerous books when very young.
Page 43 - During the subsequent paroxysm, again, she would pursue the train of ideas which had occupied her mind in the former. Mr. Combe also mentions a porter, who in a state of intoxication left a parcel at a wrong house, and when sober could not recollect what he had done with it. But the next time he got drunk, he recollected where he had left it, and went and recovered it.
Page 155 - Dr. Burrows relates the case of a lady who had been unwell for several years. She referred all her suffering to the stomach, and often said that when she was dead there would be found the seat of her disorder. She died rather suddenly with fever and delirium, after exposure on a very hot day ; and on examining the body no trace of disease appeared in the stomach or bowels, but the brain exhibited marks of long standing disease.
Page 148 - ... insanity ; but to me it appears more rational to suppose that the irritation of the brain, produced by the moral cause, not only caused the disorder of the digestive organs, but by its continuance increased the disease of the brain-- to such a degree as to cause mental derangement, just as we see a blow on the head produce at first only slight sickness of the stomach and vomiting, but followed by violent delirium. From the cases which Broussais has given, it evidently appears that slight irritation...
Page 82 - is more improper and cruel than that of some parents who exact of their children much intellectual labour and great progress in study. It is the tomb of their talents and health.
Page 171 - Should the body sue the mind before a court of judicature for damages, it would be found that the mind would prove to have been a ruinous tenant to its landlord.
Page 75 - ... supposed to possess almost miraculous mental powers, experiencing these effects and sinking under them. Some of them died early, when but six or eight years of age, but manifested, to the last, a maturity of understanding, which only increased the agony of a separation. Their minds, like some of the fairest flowers, were ' no sooner blown than blasted.