Word: mind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...part of the head. This man recovered. Experiments on animals show that cutting out certain parts of the brain will produce paralysis of certain parts of the body. Disease, strong emotions, fear, grief, will also produce paralysis. The wonderful and inexplicable action of the will is thus stopped. The mind often produces pain or disease by simply concentrating attention on certain parts of the body. A criminal once died from imagining that he was bleeding to death. Brain diseases are the cause of great mortality, especially among children. In all exposure a man should keep up courage...
...person knowing it. The law of eccentric projection is that by which we refer sensation to the end of the nerve on which it is received, instead of at the point of contact with exciting cause. Neuralgia is caused by anything that worries or troubles a person's mind. Malaria is also a fruitful cause of neuralgia...
...face with matured thoughts upon indiscriminate topics which is stimulating to a high degree. We hear again and again the cry that this is an over-read world, and that scholars are degenerating into book-worms. At times some peculiarly independent thinker decries reading as debilitating to the mind, and advocates a little more use of the brains. But these invectives are few and far between, for the growth of reading has become so universal that the habit of reading has become absolutely essential to a successful career. And it is safe to say that if this habit...
...reunion with addresses and eulogies is an excellent one and one that we might still have in conjunction with something else. But would not something of a jovial nature, in which the whole body of students take part, be more fitting to the happy occasion. I have in mind a singular celebration, which I cannot quote accurately because I have not the paper near at hand which gave the account of it. Last year a German university - Heidelberg I think - attained a ripe age among the hundreds. The thousands of students, under several committees, got up a big costume procession...
Please let me add that I do not have in mind a rough burlesque like the antiques and horribles who make our Fourth hideous. There could be any number of ludicrous take-offs and droll fancies, yet well, and picturesquely arranged...