Volume 2

Zoonomia; or, the laws of organic life. Part second / By Erasmus Darwin, M.D.

  • Erasmus Darwin
Date:
1797
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Credit: Zoonomia; or, the laws of organic life. Part second / By Erasmus Darwin, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CuassTEL 2-2] OF VOLITION: _ By Decreafed Volition. iat GENU S Il. With deéreafed Ablions 4 the 0; gars fi Senje, : é SPECIES. is the defect of memory in old people, who forget the ations of yefterday, being incapable of voluntary recollection, and yet remember thofe of their youth, fociation or fuggeftion. This. is properly the para- lyfis of the mind; the organs of fenfe do not obey colle&ted, or aed over again by the will. ning to recover, find themfelves moft at a lofs in re- words have not been. fo, frequently affociated with the ideas they ftand for, as the common words of a lan« guage. Mr,———-, a man of ftrong mind, of a ufe of fpeech, after repeated trials to remember the name of a perfon or’ place, applauded himfelf, when he fucceeded,: with fuch a childifh {mile on the partiat
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