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Excerpt from Materialism in Its Relations to the Causes, Conditions, and Treatment of InsanityThe drift of modern science, judged by its surface, is toward materialism. The term is used in its philosophic and not in its theological sense. Not to discuss the general doc trine, I desire to make a few suggestions upon certain special aspects of the subject, that would seem to come within the scope of this occasion and this assembly. I would call ...

Ben Kirby (Steve Cochran) fängt und zähmt Wildpferde. Als es ihm gelingt, einen eleganten schwarzen Leithengst einzufangen, währt die Freude nur kurz. Weil er das Geld dringend benötigt, muss er das prachtvolle Tier, welches er "Wildfire" nennt, verkaufen. Der neue Besitzer Dave Tracy (Ray Teal), ein zwielichtiger Schausteller, lässt Wildfire fortan in seinem Zirkus auftreten. Für Kirby eine unerträgliche Vorstellung. Da er den Hengst nicht zu...

Excerpt from "Chemical Restraint" In the Management of the InsaneIn this case it is not an improper use of language to speak of it as chemical restraint.Some fifteen months after the introduction of chloral at the Utica Asylum' Dr. Andrews described the mode of its use.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important hist...

Excerpt from "Chemical Restraint" In the Management of the InsaneIn this case it is not an improper use of language to speak of it as chemical restraint.Some fifteen months after the introduction of chloral at the Utica Asylum' Dr. Andrews described the mode of its use.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important hist...

This volume presents the philosophies of Hume and Kant through their actual writings and through commentary provided by the authors. The selections, which were taken from their major works, were chosen to reflect the wide perspectives of both philosophers. The commentary was designed to develop as well as to interpret the most salient aspects of each philosophy. As with the previous volume, The Worlds of Plato and Aristotle, by the same author...

The purpose of this text is to present the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle as whole perspectives of life and the world by utilising the actual writings of the two men. This task presents two problems: selection and interpretation. For the first, while we may not have included everyone's favourite selection, we trust that we have not included any that may be judged unimportant. For the second, while we have had to state our interpretations ...