Hygiene of nerves and mind in health and disease / by August Forel ; authorised translation from the second German edition by Herbert Austin Aikins.
- Auguste Forel
- Date:
- 1907
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Hygiene of nerves and mind in health and disease / by August Forel ; authorised translation from the second German edition by Herbert Austin Aikins. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![sions which we receive from without; (2) the sphere of common (or general) feehng and emotion in which there is a general emphasising of our central sensibil- ity—something not localised in space; and (3) the sphere of will and movement whose power transforms the elaborated impressions and conditions of the soul into outward action. We observe at once that the first sphere comprehends ' centripetal elements which come from without and lead towards the centre of the soul, while the second appears to be almost purely central, and the third displays centrifugal effects, leading out from the centre of the soul/ 4. Judgment and Causality. When 1 reason from present or past conditions of my sensibility to the existence of certain present, past, or future phenomena,^ that is called a logical judgment, or in- ference. Inferences can be correct (i.e., in accord- ance wdth the facts), false, or partly correct. No one will doubt that for man the correct judgment of the present and the future (and to a large extent also of the past) is of the highest importance. Such judgment is based upon the law of causation, which says: No effect without a preceding cause. But the law of causation is itself really the law of the con- ' [The word soul as used here is almost synonymous with mind. Psychologists often use it when they are talking about feelings rather than about something more strictly intellectual. It has no special refer- ence to one's immortal part. Indeed German psychologists often speak of the soul of a brute when they deny that it has any mind.—Tr.] ^[The word phenomenon as used in psychology or any other science does not mean something remarkable, but merely something that can be observed.—Tr.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21174143_0037.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
