Description - On the Nature and Proximate Cause of Insanity by James George Davey
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ... ON THE NATURE, AND PROXIMATE CAUSE, OP INSANITY. In the investigation of either the healthy or disordered manifestations of mind--i. e. the physiology or pathology of the brain--it is no longer the practice of the psychologist to waste his time, or that of his hearers or readers, as the case may be, by discussing the relative merits, or more properly demerits, of those of the metaphysical school. We have the privilege of living in a new era: --one essentially practical and inductive. The school to which we belong recognises facts rather than fiction--things, not mere words. It demands of those who would enter its portals an acute perception, a facility of reasoning power, and an earnest desire for truth: to these qualifications, the "thick-coming fancies" the vain speculations, and facile inventions of a Berkeley, or a Leibnitz, or a Cousin, et hoc genus omne, must succumb; and what is more, fade ere long from the memory of man, --or, if not quite forgotten, but registered as a series of facts in the psychological history of our race. Those of my readers who have devoted their time and attention to the cerebral physiology, will not have failed to notice the slow and hesitating pace by which the present 'vantage ground of our science has been reached; in the course of their studies they will have remarked how the doctrine of innate ideas, first shaken by the comparatively crude and feeble opposition of such men as Hobbes, Locke, and Condillac--each of whom advocated the dependency of the mental, or rather the cerebral impressions, on the use of the external senses, became in the severer, because more able, hands of Priestley, Lawrence, and especially of Gall, steadily yet certainly extinguished. The doctrine of the duality of the brain, as taught...
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