On the Functions of the Brain and of Each of Its Parts: On the origin of the moral qualities and intellectual faculties of man, and the conditions of their manifestationMarsh, Capen & Lyon, 1835 |
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... Crimes and misdemeanors are not committed of themselves ; they cannot , therefore , be considered as abstract beings . Crimes and offences , are the results of individuals acting ; they , therefore , receive their character from the ...
... Crimes and misdemeanors are not committed of themselves ; they cannot , therefore , be considered as abstract beings . Crimes and offences , are the results of individuals acting ; they , therefore , receive their character from the ...
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... crime , from certain derangements of the mind , so often mask- ed , from imbecility , from madness ? Ought not circum- stances so numerous , and so favorable , give to the physician profound and certain views of human nature ? * Let ...
... crime , from certain derangements of the mind , so often mask- ed , from imbecility , from madness ? Ought not circum- stances so numerous , and so favorable , give to the physician profound and certain views of human nature ? * Let ...
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... visions , spirits , and wizards ? The madman hears the celestial choirs ; he fears the devil who follows him with eager step ; he attacks whole legions ; dies an hundred times on the wheel for imaginary crimes 114 PHYSIOLOGY OF THE BRAIN .
... visions , spirits , and wizards ? The madman hears the celestial choirs ; he fears the devil who follows him with eager step ; he attacks whole legions ; dies an hundred times on the wheel for imaginary crimes 114 PHYSIOLOGY OF THE BRAIN .
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Franz Josef Gall. dies an hundred times on the wheel for imaginary crimes , finds his head on the neck of another , and carefully re- pulses every thing which approaches him , in order not to endanger his nose of many yards in length ...
Franz Josef Gall. dies an hundred times on the wheel for imaginary crimes , finds his head on the neck of another , and carefully re- pulses every thing which approaches him , in order not to endanger his nose of many yards in length ...
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... crimes ? Why have not the great and the rich , purchased the art of giving a great capacity to their children ? Believe , then , that such an act is not entirely in the power of men . It is nature herself , that , by means of the ...
... crimes ? Why have not the great and the rich , purchased the art of giving a great capacity to their children ? Believe , then , that such an act is not entirely in the power of men . It is nature herself , that , by means of the ...
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Page 214 - All things come alike to all : there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked ; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not : as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Page 214 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Page 213 - Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it but "sin
Page 27 - The Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System in general, and of the Brain in particular; with observations upon the possibility of ascertaining several intellectual and moral dispositions of man and animals, by the configuration of their heads,
Page 214 - This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
Page 212 - Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these ,• Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like ; of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things, shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Page 213 - But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Page 212 - God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient, being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness ; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity ; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful...
Page 214 - For man also knoweth not his time : as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare ; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
Page 214 - All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.