Sound mind, or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect / by John Haslam.

Date:
1819
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Credit: Sound mind, or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect / by John Haslam. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    necessary to him, who professed to de- % scribe its disorders: — that in order to define the aberrations, the standard should be fixed. There was indeed no lack of theories and systems of Meta- physic ; and although they essentially differed, many possessed the highest re- putation. Amidst this distraction of con- flicting opinions, which no mediator could adequately reconcile, — without daring; to contend with a host of discre- pancies, or presuming to demolish the lofty edifices which scholastic Pneuina- tology had reared, — I determined to throw off the shackles of authority, and think for myself. For it was evident, on the freehold ground of literature, that there is “ ample room and verge enough” for every man to build his own tenement;
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