sanity and insanity
- Author: charles arthur mercier
- Genre: History & Historical Fiction
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: pairs of muscles, the simultaneous action of several nerve centres becomes necessary. How can the simultaneous discharge of several centres be effected ? One obvious method suggests itself at once. If the centres, whose simultaneous discharge is needed, were all connected with another centre, then the discharge of this other common centre would set all the rest discharging simultaneously. Suppose A, B, and C to be three nerve centres actuating the muscles of the chest, abdomen, and throat respectively, by means of the nerves a a, b b, and c c, and suppose that from each of these centres there goes a cord or channel of communication to a common centre at D. Then the discharge of D will set going simultaneously the discharges of A, B, and C, and will produce simultaneous action of the three sets of antagonistic groups of muscles which these three centres represent. Again, the muscles of nose, neck, and mouth might be represented in three other centres, E, F, and G, and these be grouped together by a central station at H, and then H and D connected with a still more comprehensive station at I; and then the discharge of I would bring about simultaneous action of the whole of the muscular apparatus employed in forced respiration It is obvious that any number of muscles can be brought into simultaneous and duly proportioned action by a similar arrangement of duly proportioned channels proceeding from a single centre ; and by such an apparatus even the movements of equilibration, which demand simultaneous and duly proportioned action of almost all the muscles of the body, can be actuated. The majority of our acts do not, however, depend solely on the simultaneous action of muscles. In walking, for instance, while a number of muscles must act simultaneously to produce each movement ...
on causation with a chapter on belief
- Author: charles arthur mercier
- Genre: History
OLD CAMP GRANT ON THE RIO SAN PEDRO-DAILY ROUTINE OP LIFE-ARCHITECTURE OP THE GILA-SOLDIERS AS LABORERS-THE MESCAL AND ITS USES-DRINK AND GAMBLING -RATTLESNAKE BITES AND THE GOLONDRINA WEED- SODA LAKE AND THE DEATH VALLEY-PELMER AND HIS RANCH.DANTE ALIGHIERT, it has always seemed to mc, made the mistake of his life in dying when he did in the picturesque capital of the Exarchate five hundred aud fifty years ago. Had he held on to this mortal coil until after Uncle Sam had perfected the " Gadsden Purchase/' he would have fouud full scope for his genius in the description of a region in which not only purgatory and hell, but heaven likewise, had combined to produce a bewildering kaleidoscope of all that was wonderful, weird, terrible, and awe-inspiring, with not a little that was beautiful and romantic.The vast region in the southwest corner of the United States, kuown on the maps as the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, may, with perfect frankness, be claimed as the wonder-laTable of Contents OLD CAMP &RANT ON THE RIO SAN PEDRO-DAILY ROUTINE OF LIFE- ARCHITECTURE OF THE GILA-SOLDIERS AS LABORERS-THE MESCAL AND ITS USES-DRINK AND GAMBLING-RATTLESNAKE BITES AND THE GOLONDRINA WEED-SODA LAKE AND THE DEATH VALLEY-FELMER AND HIS RANCH1; CHAPTER II; STRANGE VISITORS-SOME APACHE CUSTOMS-MEXICAN CAPTIVES-SPEEDY AND THE GHOST-THE ATTACK UPON KENNEDY AND ISRAEL'S TRAIN -FINDING THE BODIES-THE DEAD APACHE-A FRONTIER BURIAL- HOW LIEUTENANT YEATON RECEIVED HIS DEATH WOUND-ON THE TRAIL WITH LIEUTENANT CUSHING-REVENGE IS SWEET 17; CHAPTER III; THE RETURN TO CAMP GRANT-LANCED TO DEATH BY APACHES-THE KILLING OF MILLER AND TAPPAN-COMPANY QUARTERS-APACHE CAPTIVES -THE CLOUD-BURST-APACHE CORN-FIELDS-MEETTNO COLONEL SAN-FORD-ENTRAPPED IX AN APACHE AMBUSCADE-AN OLD-TIMER'S REMINISCENCES OF TUCSON-FUNERAL CROSSES ON THE ROADSIDE-PADRE EUSEBIO KINO-FIRST VIEW OF TUCSON-THE "SHOO FLY" RESTAURANT 34; CHAPT
a new logic
- Author: charles arthur mercier
- Genre: Books
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INTRODUCTION THE PROVINCE OF LOGIC It is scarcely too much to say that, of the innumerable writers on Logic, no two are agreed on what its subject-matter is, what its limits are, or even whether it is a Science or an Art. Aldrich regards it as the Art of Reasoning; Mansel, as the Science of Formal Reasoning; Whately, as the Art and Science of Reasoning; the Post Royal logicians, as the Science of the operations of the understanding in the pursuit of Truth ; Hamilton, as the Science of the Necessary Laws of Thought; Mill, as the Art of Correct Thinking, and the Science of the conditions of Correct Thinking; Bain, as a Theoretical or abstract Science, the Practical Science of Proof, and a body of Method auxiliary to the search for Truth. Of recent writers on Deductive Logic, Prof. Carveth Read calls it the Science of Proof; Mr. Welton, the Science of the Principles that regulate valid thought; and Dr. Mellone says that it deals with the principles that regulate valid thought, and on which the validity of thought depends. Logicians of the Modern School do not formally define the scope or province of Logic. Mr. Bosanquet does say incidentally, in his second volume, that ' Logic is little more than an account of the forms and modes in which a universal does or does not affect the differences through which it persists,' but I find no other indication of the province of Logic. Logicians are not agreed even about the subject-matter of Logic. Some say it is concerned with Propositions; others that it treats of Concepts ; yet others that its subject is Real Existence. Some say that Logic is concerned with the process only of thought, and is regardless of results; others that it looks to results only, and is regardless of processes. In spite of this immense diversity of opinion as t...
a text book of insanity
- Author: charles arthur mercier
- Genre: Criminal Law
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VII. VARIETIES OF INSANITY. 1. Idiocy And Imbecility. These defects are distinct clinically, legally, and, to a certain extent, etiologically also, from other forms of insanity. They are universally regarded as different degrees of the same defect, but no dividing line is commonly drawn between them. As it is convenient that distinct names should denote distinct things, I am in the habit of limiting the term " idiot" to those persons who are unable to acquire even the simple modes of conduct of the directly self-conservative class, and who require constant supervision and care to preserve them in safety ; while by " imbeciles " I understand those who have fully acquired the activities of this class, and can be trusted to go about by themselves and to avoid the common dangers of the house and the streets, but whose intelligence is so defective that they are unable to acquire the indirectly self-conservative activitiesthat is to say, their industry, and they are often industrious, is not intelligent enough to give it a sufficient market value to enable them to maintain themselves. The distinction is clear, and it is practically convenient, since it enables us to distinguish the imbecile, notonly from the idiot at one end of the scale, but from the normal stupid person at the other. However stupid a man may be, we do not call him imbecile unless his intelligence is so defective that by reason of his defect he is unable to maintain himself; and when this degree of defect is reached, we have no hesitation in applying to him this title. Idiots and imbeciles are alike in this: that their defect is congenital, or at least originalthat is to say, they have not lost their intelligence, they have never attained it. They are not dements, but aments. In them the highest ...
conduct and its disorders biologically considered
- Author: charles arthur mercier
- Genre: Jesus
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Sanity and Insanity
- Author: charles arthur mercier
- Genre: History & Historical Fiction
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