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 your attention, then, to. The effects of the practical application of modern materialistic views, in estimating the causes, condi tions, and treatment of insanity.As I am addressing an audience of practical alienists, familiar with the literature of their specialty, I will, to save time and narrow the discussion, take for my text a paper that has just fallen under my observation, in the April number of the America/n Journal of Insanity.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.