| Show i A for far VT var or the I 1 deseret news R REASON E oln OIN AND INSANITY 1 t BY ZY ALEXANDER OTT if we ive consider the definition of the mind as j given by some bome philosophers viz that it is that in man which thinks remembers reasons and wills we find from our own observation that there are in the lower animal many phenomena analogous if not ident identical cal cai with intellect I 1 the a acts aits ts and demeanor of certain I 1 domestic animals such as dogs cats etc are in their own way as strictly logical and reasonable aa as abose those we witness in the ordinary transactions chions of life durin during the invasion of germany by ky the french in isol 1605 a hussar bussar of napoleons Napole onys army was killed in a skirmish on the banks of the danube the faithful horse of the deal deai trooper watched his master with a tenderness I 1 truly remarkable aickin licking sometimes bh his bands lands 1 sometimes his hia hiance are face ace and preventing every one from ap ampro te him thus all efforts to remove he horse or the body were in ill vain t Ni napoleon to whom this Bin sin singular guiar gular circum 1 stance bad had been reported ordered a watch to be kept on the animal and to report to him the result during three days and arid the horse was seen to take neither food nor drink but to continue from time to timae tinte licking his master aa as if to ascertain his condit on being on the third day convinced of the death of the i tro per he gave a neigh similar to a cry of j wa 1 and rustling rushing to the near danube be he plunged in the water and was waa seen no more J many other instances are on record which labow show the presence of at intellect and reason in I 1 animals according to the position they oc I 1 loupy cupy in the tiie scale of being hence the term instinct to which we generally ascribe the motives and actions of the brute creation is rather uncertain taia iain and vague I 1 A remarkable circumstance which mental physiology teaches is that according to all observation man is more subject to insanity insanity than the lower animals and that the peculiar pecullar more solid structure of the cerebra cerebral I 1 system of dob dogs horses etc is in its very nature a I 1 iro ro medium against that fearful malady the cases of hydrophobia which is generated and propagated by the virus or poison being conducted irl irm one cuie system to the other by the b te of some rabid animal are iverel merely y of a so m matic a i tie cie organic rg a nc character and have althou although b t they h ey destroy t oy ike many other diseases reason nothing to do with insanity in its purely and I 1 perfectly developed form torm 1 so caled symptomatic hydrophobia which has a spontaneous origin or lnore more correctly corr ecly expressed 1 ls esthe the cor car coni or result of some lother iother other malady occurs rarely aud cannot be be brought within the domain of comparative mental physiology which treats of insani y as a an affe affection leoil or the mind caused by gome some deep and lasting la ing impression whether of an external or internal nature it will be well to here bere that insanity unlike other obber complaints cannot as a general thin thid thing be tr ced to bodil disease but that it is an un hinging ing of the tee reas reasi ning faculties of the mei met tal equilibrium of a want of gcoy sound common sense it is very true cases of insanity may ar se be from a ale ade de ran gement of or the cerebral lobes or some other indis indisposition posit ion lon but it be incorrect to state that 1 perfectly de developed coped in inanity anity may always be traced to a physical disorder in lectures es on 1 psychology and comi comparative comara aratine tive mental gy I 1 have beard heard cases m where iD individuals individual in consequent e of a fractured skull skuli or women after mik fever ever have suf euf from om menta mental derangement so that the mora moral harmony a mony was ivas disturbed and persons of an honest upright cher chor character acter became afterwards addicted to stealing drinking and de bauch bau cheries pries but such instances occur on ony y sporadically that is one out os of a hundred are the lower animals such auch as dog dogs horses etc capable of emotions and feeling brinly tuey are in in proportion to their cap cacci cities just as troubles of children inay nay frequently appear trifles or nothing to grown up persons yuo buo vuo often laugh or correct se severely arely their naughty whims as they are termed when I 1 in reality these little ones have as much to lutler suffer as ai they can bear so in relation to the brute creation they are more or less leas endowed with lif lit intellect and feeling and even an insect thinks remembers reas reasons uns ons add and wills it is related of a dog havin bavin having baving died while listening to a very pretty but plaintive melody L is vaillant valliant a celebrated french traveler speaks while ble ahle on a tour through through southern africa of a dog of his as an animal animal of peculiar sagacity A tame lame monkey that by his pranks ond and nd oddities oddi tiei had become the favorite of the whole caravan was in the habit of tiding rid inlo iril on a large dog at ast last the latter got tred tired at 0 being heing constantly imposed upon by his fellow trav trave traveler bler fler ler ot of the monkey tribe and on the camp start rig ng one morning he remained behin 1 while the monkey was impatiently waiting to bestride his amne canine racer finally the train bein being gout out a of sight the monkey afraid of lo 10 losing b his is master commenced to lun jun whereupon the dog do likewise resumed his march being how ev evere everk tr very ery cry careful to remain alv ali always aye a short d distance I 1 stance behind his friend thus we find thit them the mind indof of manfrom man from that of the lower animals is simply di tints ed by superiority and greater devel ament in tire th same aid ald not by ei denied to the brute and I 1 may fairly say that ili in some instances man is below the lower ani aniball an mall imala as in the case of etc ibe the reasoning of a sound person is founded ithone upon facts and the a ascertained relations of those bacel to 0 each cu other C Is le equal tod to D al to N thee are simple propositions impositions because their relationship which s here stated has hag been ascertained by proper investigation a tion in the further process of rea boning on inga a series of such propositions or ascertained relations are taken and certain other truths or relations are deduced arising out of the mutual connection of some bome aa of these propositions to ea it other for ihor instance it if C is equal to D and D equal to N it will be be easily perceived by a simple process of rea reasoning L aning that C is equal e to N in consequence conse conee quence of if the mutual relation which both C and D have haie to N As remarked before reasoning consists of two parts viz the premises pret mies and arid drawn from froin them it the premises are true the remaining part of the process is comparatively simple but frequently the reasoner rea rca bas baa to establish bis his p premises demises by introducing numerous distinct arguments or steps a 0 arranged that he conclusion from froia one step becomes a connect ed part pirt p of the 1 remises demises in tha the next and arid this may be continued through a long series serles an insane p person in his bis reasoning will generally distort views have bib bis recourse to illustrations and analogies ana ani logies which are artfully woven together and which will appear to many quite q ante plausible and feasible unless they enquire into the evidence on which they are founded in melancholic hallucinations the s of reasoning is confined to one given subject for many man years 5 ears earb and then frequently changed from one thing to another professor lr dr relates in one of his lectures lec on comparative mental menta I 1 ph physiology biology that a poor laboring man mail was suddenly seized with wilh with the idea of being poisoned and was co stantie haunted ba tinted with it for nine 5 years ear he then changed this hallucination became popa of reme beme and extremely happy and thus continued five years ears when ahen be he died one of he peculiar phenomena of thi lidd lind of insanity is the singular affection of the memory A frenchman who had been a resident of berlin f r many years became maniacal conversed in his i active tongue which he had not used for a long time as fluently as ever eer on his recovery however boweter bo weter weier he spoke again german and only with difficulty french Veriod periodical ical I 1 aroxy sms of delirium occur nest not so frequently but they are rein remarkable e in their nature as they atta k the patient so suddenly tt tr at in conversation the unfortunate person w 11 stop slop in ili the in mi die ot at a story or even of a sentence and then branch off into the subject of his hallucination on recovery from the paroxysm the patient will hig hii former subject in which be he was engaged at the time of the attack beginning exactly where he had left off A curious feature of insanity present thosa those cases in which the pat ent is sound in relation to everything ci ery thing except one single point and the sufferer otten orien shows great ability to avoid avold the su subject eject of his disordered impression when circumstances require him to do so A gentleman who had been an inmate of the Bic etre the great lunatic asylum in pans for some tim tune ewas was on he the visitation of 0 a commissar binissary inis sary sars ordered to be discharged as perfectly sane after a ion lon long iong con conversation ersa tion in which lc le haa bad condur conducted ted L himself with the greatest propriety but on being requested to sign the us usual al document of recovery reco vry viry he subscribed subscribe iii ili hica bica self seif lesus jesus christ arid and then ardul ed in all the reveries connected with that illusion with a great in many any insane persons I 1 may almost say with reference to continental continent dl di europe with the majority their misfortune may be traced to dis appointed I 1 vc ve thir th ir case is generally llo tio hopeless and presents lamel famel table tabie instances of the shipwreck of the heart the subject oi at the diseases of the nand nond ia 13 i vast and important mi im I 1 merely touched here a few of its most interesting features but previous to closing my remarks I 1 will briefly mention here a species of ina lna in nityA anity w ell known to the reader how often do we not see men and women here but esp bially in the iv w rid who ol herise hertse are sound and sober possessed of great talents with wi h fair opportunities to get an honorable i ame name in society ruah rush headlong ion lon into perdition by indulging in the most infamous vices vicea to do wron kronwith w with ath our eyes eves wide open again galna gainA t our conviction colv action against the voice of our conaci nce nee against the voice of the holy idoly spirit in direct opposition to the tb commandment command men s of God godf iii debbin oe of atia attig sacred teachings s which we vie receive from our leaders I 1 la an insanity more hor hornbe ribe than thoe mentioned before because it euins lums body and soul for time and eer aern nily ully ly 0 vide vile R of campaign ol 01 br ai M segur ame alje de tie wibb federal of napoleon I 1 and m u hor of then ther the braslan aslan ra campeta camp ilga of 1842 t processor Pr olessor sor dr pr vate ot of the king ot of pruss laas lads one of the leading rs ot the faculty a agthe of derlin and ot of the anatomical theatre on account of bis bli bri ilant llant intellect his rare amit ault y as a an i bis lis prot und knowle erel egel ha he was called by wll wit ilam llam IV from the university ot of munich to occupy his bis present prominent boitin lon ion at one ona of he the first I 1 ferary ions tons ot K R trope trupe ll 11 the irin inin of tru enin l ein eln Is roudet unas of a very amablo amable bisp olion ollon anre wil wll ius ins to alstin to others than thau to speak him ete ere e f |
