TXTSpurzheim; E662| Annotations to Spurzheim's Observations on Insanity t1488
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London, 1817
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[P 106] . . . In children . . . the disturbances of the
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organization appear merely as organic diseases, because the
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functions are entirely suppressed.
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Corporeal disease. to which I readily agree. Diseases of
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the mind I pity him. Denies mental health and perfection
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Stick to this all is right. But see page 152
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[P 152] As the functions depend on the organization,
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disturbed functions will derange the organization, and one
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deranged cerebral part will have an influence on others, and so
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arises insanity. . . . Whatever occupies the mind too intensely
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or exclusively is hurtful to the brain, and induces a state
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favourable to insanity, in diminishing the influence of will.
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[P 154] Religion is another fertile cause of insanity. Mr.
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Haslam, though he declares it sinful to consider religion as a
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cause of insanity, adds, however, that he would be ungrateful,
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did he not avow his obligation to Methodism for its supply of
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numerous cases. Hence the primitive feelings of religion may be
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misled and produce insanity; that is what I would contend for,
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and in that sense religion often leads to insanity.
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Methodism &/c p. 154. Cowper came to me & said. O that I
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were insane always I will never rest. Can you not make me truly
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insane. I will never rest till I am so. O that in the bosom of
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God I was hid. You retain health & yet are as mad as any of us
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all--over us all--mad as a refuge from unbelief--from Bacon
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Newton & Locke