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We see that to make an efficiently working brain has been Nature's chief aim from
the moment of conception right on though life, and that its mental action has been
the highest of all its aims. There are, no doubt, questions of extreme difficulty, ...
We see that to make an efficiently working brain has been Nature's chief aim from
the moment of conception right on though life, and that its mental action has been
the highest of all its aims. There are, no doubt, questions of extreme difficulty, ...
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No mere mental stimulus will excite pleasure or laughter when the brain-cells are
exhausted by excessive toil or loss of blood. No volition can be exercised by the
strongest-willed man when his brain is poisoned by the bacillus of typhoid fever.
No mere mental stimulus will excite pleasure or laughter when the brain-cells are
exhausted by excessive toil or loss of blood. No volition can be exercised by the
strongest-willed man when his brain is poisoned by the bacillus of typhoid fever.
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Specific and technical insanity results from mental and moral causes in only
about one-fourth of all the cases, the remaining three-fourths arising from purely
bodily causes. But even in those due to mental causes we now unhesitatingly ...
Specific and technical insanity results from mental and moral causes in only
about one-fourth of all the cases, the remaining three-fourths arising from purely
bodily causes. But even in those due to mental causes we now unhesitatingly ...
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The Russian Stage 3 The Study of Eugenics 4 The Novet in The Ring and the Book 5 The London Stock Exchange 6 Maurice Barrès 7 French Renai... | 1 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, 218. köide |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) |
| Contributor | George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1913 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 okt. 2005 |
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