A discourse on the birth & pilgrimage of thought / by Walter Cooper Dendy.

  • Walter Cooper Dendy
Date:
1853
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Credit: A discourse on the birth & pilgrimage of thought / by Walter Cooper Dendy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    ]13 PSTOHONOESIS : THE LIGHT AND SHADOW OP THOUGHT IS IITTELLECTIJAL LIFE. Thouglit in tlie untutored or vulgar mind must be as uninteresting as the psychical biography of a child. The poet and the painter do not revel in the common phases and expressions of nature ; they look to the ex- alted effects, the bright light and the gloom, the rise and set of sun, the deep repose or the war of the elements, as subjects for the beauty and the glory of their art. So we shall take rather the deep or the exalted workings of a thought as the high types of those faculties which con- stitute par excellence the intellect of man. The working of a faculty may be chiefly quiescent and pacific, yet, often, that which began in health, leads on to disorder, to derangement, or to death. Were we to adopt as our theme the complete analysis of the faculties, we should be compelled at once to wind through the mazes of logic and then to bring out the I