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PRINCIPLES OF

MENTAL PHYSIOLOGY.

EXTRACTS FROM PRESS NOTICES OF

THE FIRST EDITION.

"Dr. Carpenter has built up a natural history of the mental faculties which will fully repay the most careful study that can be bestowed upon it. His account of Memory, of Common Sense,' of ' Unconscious Cerebration,' and of 'Reverie and Somnambulism,' will be absolute revelations to the great majority of readers; and when once certain preliminary details have been mastered, the facts and arguments upon which he relies are stated and explained with a freedom from technicalities, and with a pellucid clearness of thought and diction, which leave nothing on either score to be desired. Lastly, in

a concluding chapter of eloquence and dignity worthy of its subject, Dr. Carpenter grapples boldly with the attitude of Science towards Religion, and with the doubts and difficulties of those who are unable to reconcile a reign of law with a personal government of the universe. In this chapter, as well as in some others, he will probably fail to satisfy the holders of extreme views on either side, but he has done much to reconcile aspects of truth which cannot be in real opposition to each other. We can only prefix to our citation of its concluding paragraph the expression of a hope that this volume may not only be read, but studied, and that it may be studied with especial care by all who are responsible for the education of the young."—The Times.

"We must conclude by recommending Dr. Carpenter's work to the members of our own profession as applying many facts that have hitherto stood isolated to the explanation of the functions of the brain and to psychological processes generally."-Lancet.

"There is much wisdom in this valuable book. ... We especially commend it to those who are interested in the welfare of the community and the instruction and improvement of the rising generation."-Spectator.

"This volume contains in a clear and popular form the results of all the most recent investigations into the nature of insanity. The volume is altogether one of the best of the International Scientific Series which has yet appeared, and will add to its author's high literary reputation."—Academy.

"In offering us a book on Mental Physiology, Dr. Carpenter is but following out a line of thought on which he has long been working. The title implies the assumption that mental acts are in some way connected with material changes in the body: that assumption Dr. C. makes to the fullest extent, and, as we think, justifies.... It is one of the pleasing features of Dr. C.'s book, that it is not a mere dry sequence of abstract reasoning, but that it is abundantly enlivened with anecdote and illustration, which bring out the several positions into vivid concrete reality."—Guardian,

MENTAL PHYSIOLOGY,

WITH THEIR APPLICATIONS TO

THE TRAINING AND DISCIPLINE OF THE MIND,

AND

THE STUDY OF ITS MORBID CONDITIONS.

BY

WILLIAM B. CARPENTER, C.B., M.D., LL.D.,
F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S.,

CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE,
AND OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY;

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C. KEGAN PAUL & Co., 1, PATERNOSTER SQUARE,

1881.

BODLEIAT

8 MAR 24

IBRARY

[The Rights of Translation and of Reproduction are

reserved.]

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