Excerpt from A Text-Book of Psychiatry for Physicians and StudentsTo my mind, the idea of germination and implantation Should be considered most important. On the original wild plant there is ingrafted a bud from one more cultivated. This develops, and gives Off in turn branches and fruit these are not the exclusive product of the bud grafted, but are the work of the whole plant, which fur nishes the bud with nutritive material, and, according to the greater or less receptivity of the old stem, the fruit will bear some of the characters of the wild plant, or maintain entirely those of the graft. At the very least, however, the fruit embodies the essential characteristics of the latter, which has sprouted and grown, hyper nourished by the old stalk, and the seeds contain germinative elements which for the most 'part repeat the characters of the in grafted bud. If, however, this latter is weak, some of the characters of the'old plant may be repeated. So it is with the human mind. Nature is its vast domain, and all that exists therein its rightful patrimony.Nature is continually inserting grafts upon the old branches of the human understanding. The longer the action of its forces upon the senses, the more perfect these become, and the progressive adap tafion of man is the result of the increased receptive and assimilative power exhibited by the nervous. System towards the for Nature.This potentiality overcomes the law of habit, which woul to fix the mechanism in the senso-motor adaptations (vide L. Dumont and W. James), and enlarges the mental Sphere in new directions, so that there is a continual sprouting of the new buds ingrafted upon the great intellectual stem. Thus, human thought, from the narrow circle of the individual, widens gradually over the universe.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 historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.