On the state of the mind during sleep, etc. : a paper read to the physiological section of the British Association, on the sixth of September, 1852 / by R. Fowler.

  • Richard Fowler
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1852
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Credit: On the state of the mind during sleep, etc. : a paper read to the physiological section of the British Association, on the sixth of September, 1852 / by R. Fowler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EXPLANATORY NOTES. EVIL. What may be the influence of the evils of life on our future state, whether such as may have been un¬ avoidable, or incurred by heedlessness, or the result of voluntary misconduct? Evil, not sequent on our own misconduct, may act on us like insult,* to rouse torpid minds to action, and force a heedless headlong impulse how to think and recover its level, and to emulate minds of a higher order.']' The sequent effects of our conduct when no in accordance with the laws of man’s nature are evilt —-but like errors in our progressive education in art or in science, such errors leave in our minds abiding remembrances of what we should avoid when we try again. Bolingbroke, in his “Reflections upon Exile,’’ says—“ If we have applied ourselves betimes to the study of wisdom, and to the practice of virtue, evils become indifferent; but if we have neglected to do so, they become necessary. In one case they are evil, * Injuries may be atoned for and forgiven, but insults admit of no compensation. They degrade the mind in its own esteem, and force it to recover its level by revenge.—Junius. f “ To wake the soul by tender strokes of art.” Pope’s prologue to “ Cato.”
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