Body and mindAppleton, 1890 - 275 pages |
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action activity acute animal appear Aristotle asylum atheism become bodily body brain cause cell centres cerebral hemispheres certainly character chemical affinity Cloth complex consciousness convulsions death definite degeneracy derangement disease disorder display doctrine dreams earth effects elements Emanuel Swedenborg energy epilepsy epileptic ERNST HAECKEL evolution excited exhibit experience fact father feeling Goethe Hamlet heaven higher highest human ideas idiot imagination impulse individual inquiry instincts intellectual kind knowledge Laertes laws living madness mania manifest matter medical psychologist melancholia ment mental functions mind molecules monomania moral sense morbid motor movements Nature nerve-cell nerve-centres nervous neurine observation Ophelia organic passion patient person phenomena philosophy physical physiological Polonius produced reason relations result revelations scientific sensation Shakespeare sometimes spinal cord spirit spiritual world suffered Sweden Swedenborg symptoms T. H. HUXLEY things thought tion true truth ture uncon vital force wonder words
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Page 97 - On earth there is nothing great but man, In man there is nothing great but mind.
Page 134 - He raised a sigh so piteous and profound As it did seem to shatter all his bulk And end his being : that done, he lets me go : And with his head over his shoulder turn'd, He seem'd to find his way without his eyes ; For out o' doors he went without their help, And to the last bended their light on me.
Page 109 - Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportion'd to each kind. So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves More aery, last the bright consummate flower Spirits odorous breathes...
Page 153 - I returned, and saw under the sun; that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Page 144 - Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Page 150 - Ecstasy! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks; It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen.
Page 164 - Then Job answered the LORD, and said. Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
Page 152 - He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
Page 148 - 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...
Page 164 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?