Author : Henry Howard
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330304501
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Rational Materialistic Definition of Insanity and Imbecility by : Henry Howard
Download or read book Rational Materialistic Definition of Insanity and Imbecility written by Henry Howard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Rational Materialistic Definition of Insanity and Imbecility: With the Medical Jurisprudence of Legal Criminality, Founded Upon Physiological, Psychological and Clinical Observations For many years I have been convinced that if we were ever to come to a rational idea of insanity we must begin by recognizing that animal mind, as we know it, is the product of organic matter; that, consequently, insanity was a physical disease. These convictions have been the outcome of my physiological, psychological and pathological or clinical observations, and not the result of reading. While I gratefully acknowledge the great benefit that I have derived from reading and comparing the writings of other men - those great men who are so far above me intellectually, those great men whose experience and knowledge and fame arc world-wide - men that I cannot reach; yet I am not the follower of any man, nor have 1 taken my views from any other man's. My views, such as they are, arc my own views, and are the outcome of my individual study of nature ; but I have been glad to use other men's experience in support of my views, and glad when I found myself in accord with scientific men. While I am far from being in unison with those men who cannot believe in anything not of the material order nor demonstrable to the material senses, yet I respect such men, if they arc gentlemen, and consider them much less dangerous to society than are the detractors, the fanatics, who speak of all men who are not of their narrow views, who do not, like them, see nature and her works through the small end of a telescope, as materialists and somatists, in the widest sense of the term - the Dugilsonian sense. These are the men who are barring the way of progress and science, and, consequently, of civilization, of justice, benevolence and humanity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
