Natural Causes and Supernatural SeemingsK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1886 - 368 pagini This comprehensive analysis of nineteenth-century spiritual experiments questions our long tradition of encounters with the supernatural, and why it appeared to have declined in influence in the writer's era. Maudsley (1835-1918), a medical psychologist and pioneer psychiatrist, sets out to bring such alleged spiritual phenomena under scientific investigation. Emphasising the natural defects and errors of human observation and reasoning, as well as the prolific activity of the imagination, this inquiry into the causes of belief in the supernatural suggests that much of it can be explained though hallucination, mania, and delusion. The book is divided into three parts: the first section concentrates on the causes of fallacies in the sound mind, while the second considers unsound mental action. The focus of part three is theopneusticism, or the attainment of supernatural knowledge by divine inspiration. |
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... we to suppose that the faiths which inspired actual conduct were as badly based as those which filled the abstract regions of specula- tion , the implicit in conduct as ungrounded as the 8 NATURAL CAUSES AND SUPERNATURAL SEEMINGS .
... we to suppose that the faiths which inspired actual conduct were as badly based as those which filled the abstract regions of specula- tion , the implicit in conduct as ungrounded as the 8 NATURAL CAUSES AND SUPERNATURAL SEEMINGS .
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Henry Maudsley. tion , the implicit in conduct as ungrounded as the explicit in thought . But men have never fed their bodies on fictions . The reasonings of the savage respecting the habits of the game which he pursued and the fish ...
Henry Maudsley. tion , the implicit in conduct as ungrounded as the explicit in thought . But men have never fed their bodies on fictions . The reasonings of the savage respecting the habits of the game which he pursued and the fish ...
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... tion from without ; and the like verbal sophisms . § Uniformities of Experience . If it be asked of the rustic how he is sure that from one sort of seed will spring one sort of plant after he has buried it in the earth , and from ...
... tion from without ; and the like verbal sophisms . § Uniformities of Experience . If it be asked of the rustic how he is sure that from one sort of seed will spring one sort of plant after he has buried it in the earth , and from ...
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... tion and sanction of the inference as sacred in spite to be descendants of the aborigines of the island , whose old men and youths four times a year repair secretly in procession , by paths known only to themselves , to a sacred grove ...
... tion and sanction of the inference as sacred in spite to be descendants of the aborigines of the island , whose old men and youths four times a year repair secretly in procession , by paths known only to themselves , to a sacred grove ...
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... tion . To see difference , that is , to discriminate— which was probably the primal condition of the origin of consciousness - certainly is as essential a part of mental development as to see resemblance , that is , to assimilate ; the ...
... tion . To see difference , that is , to discriminate— which was probably the primal condition of the origin of consciousness - certainly is as essential a part of mental development as to see resemblance , that is , to assimilate ; the ...
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