Volume 1

Mind and matter, illustrated by considerations on hereditary insanity, and the influence of temperament in the development of passions / By J.G. Millingen.

  • John G. Millingen
Date:
1847
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Credit: Mind and matter, illustrated by considerations on hereditary insanity, and the influence of temperament in the development of passions / By J.G. Millingen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    been the bland and benign mood in which many Psychologists have described our race. On the other hand, men of the world, whose ambitious hopes had probably been disappointed, traced the features of mankind in hideous and repulsive forms, and, instead of writing from the heart, seem to have sought their inspirations in the liver. These moralists have, of course, run into an opposite extreme. | In the following pages I have endeavoured to avoid both these shoals, and to steer my humble surveying skiff between the Charybdis and Scylla of Psychology ; endeavouring, as far as I possibly could, to eschew all metaphysical disquisitions and technicalities, to render myself comprehens- ible to those who may favour my feeble essays with a perusal. When a man describes a country and its people, it is customary, and indeed it is expected, that he should also describe his voyages, and state by what means he has obtained the knowledge which he seeks to impart. I shall, therefore, like a tourist, relate the opportunities that have fallen to my humble lot, in acquiring an insight into the human family, during my long peregrinations. I cannot present my readers with any experience obtained in the shades of an academy. At a very early period of life, in the year 1789, I was taken to Paris by my family, and was present in that metropolis during all the horrors of the
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