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Excerpt from Comparative Physiology and Psychology: A Discussion of the Evolution and Relations of the Mind and Body of Man and Animals Some of the original ideas contained in this book have appeared in scientific and medical publications, such as the American Naturalist and Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry, during the past five years, as the author presented the papers containing them to biological, microscopical, medical and general scientific societies. In their condensed form, herein, the separate theses are revised and amended in conformity with more recent psychological and anatomical research. About eleven years ago the plan for these investigations was formed and has since been consistently pursued through most discouraging difficulties. All the notes accumulated could not be compressed into a volume of this size, and the author was compelled to content himself with including enough of the mental operations of man to fairly illustrate the comparative method, which will again be applied especially to the mechanism of the mind of man in a forthcoming work to be entitled "Psychology." Personally made studies of savages, infants, and all classes of men living in so-called civilized communities, with his published and unpublished clinical and pathological reports of cases of insanity enable the author to advantageously review the literature of psychology and psychiatry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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 im