Psychological Inquiries (Volume 2); Being a Series of Essays Intended to Illustrate Some Points in the Physical and Moral History of Man (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 74 THE THIRD DIALOGUE. Influence of External Circumstances on the Condition of the Mind.?To be counteracted in a great Degree by Voluntary Effort.?Exercise of the Intellect necessary to its Healthy Condition, and conducive to Happiness and Bodily Health.?Formation of Individual Character.?Free-will and Necessity.?Baron Alder- son.?Nervous Force expended in one Way cannot be expended in another.?Emotions and Passions.? The Intellect and Emotions Necessary Parts of the same System.?State of Mind very much dependent on that of the Circulating Blood.?This Rule variously illustrated.?Man being a Gregarious Animal, his Relations to others cannot be overlooked.?Cheerfulness of the Mind dependent on the Animal Functions being properly performed.?However important the Mental Faculties may be in one Way, the Corporeal Faculties are not less important in another.?Dangers to Society if the latter were to be deteriorated. It was a bright morning in the early part of August. A thunderstorm on the preceding evening had cooled the atmosphere, refreshed the plants in the flower-beds, and moistened the earth which had been parched by the previous heat. The sun, still far below the meridian, with a few light clouds occasionallypassing over it, rendered the air of an agreeable temperature. After breakfast we had strolled into the garden, and for some time it seemed that we had little leisure for conversation. At last our meditations were thus interrupted by Crites:?" You have told us how our faculties are to be improved by cultivation ? how the power of attention may be weakened by neglect and strengthened by exercise?how great things may be accomplished by the bold use. of the imagination, restrained at the same time within its just limits by the reason and the judgment?how much we may indi...