Sound Mind / Or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect
by John Haslam
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- SOUND MIND;
- OR,
- CONTRIBUTIONS
- TO THE
- NATURAL HISTORY AND PHYSIOLOGY
- OF THE
- HUMAN INTELLECT.
- LATE OF PEMBROKE HALL, CAMBRIDGE: FORMERLY PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL MEDICAL, NATURAL HISTORY, AND CHEMICAL SOCIETIES OF EDINBURGH.
- LONDON:
- PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1819.
- TO
- Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH, M.P.
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- Works by the same Author.
- SOUND MIND.
- PERCEPTION.
- FOOTNOTE:
- MEMORY.
- ON THE INTELLECTUAL SUPERIORITY WHICH MAN HAS ACQUIRED BY SPEECH, AND THE POSSESSION OF THE HAND.
- FOOTNOTES:
- ON THE NATURE AND COMPOSITION OF LANGUAGE, AS APPLIED TO THE INVESTIGATION OF THE PHENOMENA OF MIND.
- FOOTNOTES:
- ON WILL OR VOLITION.
- FOOTNOTES:
- ON THOUGHT OR REFLECTION.
- FOOTNOTES:
- ON REASON.
- FOOTNOTE:
- INSTINCT.
- FOOTNOTE:
- CONCLUSION.
- THE END.
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