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On Mental Physiology; or, the Correlations of Physiology and Psychology.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Extract

Mr. President,—I need not tell you, Sir, nor the Fellows of this Society, that the study of the human mind is a subject which has occupied the attention of the greatest philosophers of every age; nor need I remind you how long that study was enveloped in the shades of mysticism, bewildered in the mazes of metaphysical subtilty, amid the dogmata of conflicting systems. It is to Locke that we are so much indebted for dispelling the mysticism of the schoolmen. Unshackled from the tyranny of ancient names, and regardless alike of Aristotle and his categories, Locke discarded the syllogism, and instituted a searching analysis of the phenomena of thought.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1858 

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