A view of the elementary principles of education, founded on the study of the nature of man / By G. Spurzheim.

  • Johann Spurzheim
Date:
1828
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Credit: A view of the elementary principles of education, founded on the study of the nature of man / By G. Spurzheim. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    for the purpose of improving this his threefold nature. : Being asked what I mean by human nature? I reply, that it is not body alone, nor mind alone, nor animal propensities, affections, or passions ; nor moral feelings, nor intellect; neither is it organization in general, nor any system of the body, nor any particularity whatever -—but hu- man nature, in the proper sense of the words, comprehends all the observable phenomena of life, from the moment of conception to that of death, both in the healthy and diseased state ; or, in short, all the manifestations both of the body and mind. The next introductory point to. be elucidated is, whether human nature is susceptible of per- fection or degradation. In speaking of the susceptibility of being per- fected, it is not to be understood that man may lose one faculty and acquire another;: for the fundamental nature of man being unchangeable in body as well as in the. faculties of the mind, such an event is impossible on earth. The mean- ing of the proposition, therefore, can only: be, whether certain powers are capable of attaining
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