| 单词 | mental faculty |
| 例句 | Things that had been so familiar just days before my last visit to Stuyvesant became strange, and I felt I was losing the mental faculty for making sense of the world around me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Though his mental faculties remained intact, that morning, as I let out my first cry at Women’s Hospital, my papou lost the ability to speak. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Worse still, he had failed to pass the minimum mental faculties test, which made him in popular parlance a chickenhead. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z It's long dried now, but the smeary lines running side to side suggest someone -who perhaps was not fully in control of his mental faculties -tried to wipe it away. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z How to undo slavery’s injury to the mental faculties—so many freed men continued to be enslaved by the horrors they’d endured. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z "Within four days of running out of food, he'll barely be able to stand up, let alone control a rover. Plus, his mental faculties will rapidly decline. He'd have a hard time even staying awake." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The author confronts the challenge that every memoirist encounters when trying to speculate about what others are thinking and feeling, an especially difficult task given the deteriorating mental faculties of her mother. New caregiving memoirs: wrestling with love and loss 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z Doctors have said they expect him to regain his mental faculties but have cautioned that he could suffer from lasting paralysis on his left side. Kirk's condition after stroke closely guarded 2012-02-24T14:04:00Z That could affect his mental faculties as well, and therefore his behavior. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: ‘Home’ is now an abusive dad, no car, not enough cash. Where to get help? 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z By his early 80s, “He was in good health, physically active, but his mental faculties were gone,” Ms. Graves said. Robert Graves Found ‘Perfect Tranquillity’ in Majorca 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z Naturally I have been a little upset, but I have never been out of my mental faculties. Adele Mailer, Artist Who Married Norman Mailer, Dies at 90 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z A long article in The New York Times Magazine by Mark Oppenheimer suggested that Mr. Flew, his mental faculties in decline, had been manipulated by his co-author and other Christian proselytizers. Antony Flew, 87, Philosopher and Ex-Atheist, Dies 2010-04-17T02:21:00Z No cheap thrills, just lots of disorienting plot twists that have you doubting your own mental faculties. Bodies of Evidence 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Pathologists examined the role of the brain’s two hemispheres in patients with mental illness; phrenologists tried to map mental faculties onto different areas. Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z You acquired this book to film it, but it's full of tough stuff — the actor's nightmare of forgetting lines, the human nightmare of loss of mental faculty. Al Pacino faces actors' nightmares in Philip Roth's 'The Humbling' 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Also, many of our parents lacked the language, education, or in some cases mental faculties to understand what was going on. They arrested me for playing basketball: A personal argument in favor of defunding the police 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z Rather the meditator intentionally employs attention, awareness and other mental faculties in a variety of ways to better understand the functional behavior of the mind. Your brain as laboratory: The science of meditation 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z Reason is the mental faculty that takes sensory data and orders it into thoughts and ideas. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z One hypothesis suggests that poor hearing increases the cognitive load on the brain, which needs to work harder, at the expense of other mental faculties, to decipher the garbled signals the ears send. Hearing loss is a major risk factor for dementia. Hearing aids can help. 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Video and image analysis technology had "no scientific basis", co-author Eleanor Drage told the BBC News, dismissing it as "modern phrenology", the false theory skull shape could reveal character and mental faculties. AI tools fail to reduce recruitment bias - study 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z In these years, his vision and mental faculties also deteriorated. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z This past weekend, Trump fell back into this pattern, calling himself "perfect specimen" and repeatedly casting doubt over President Biden's mental faculties. "JP, right? JD Mandel?": Trump can't seem to remember who he endorsed in Ohio's GOP Senate primary 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z In the past, critics have also questioned Gingrich's mental faculties, a particular point of irony in light of his comments around Harris' intellect. Newt Gingrich tells Fox News that Kamala Harris is "the dumbest person ever elected vice president" 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z Combating an array of opposing forces — chief among them her declining mental faculties — she struggles to complete the task assigned to her more than 50 years before. Review | Stephen King and Richard Chizmar’s Gwendy saga comes to a satisfying conclusion 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z "They genuinely do not have the mental faculties or life experience to appreciate all they are taking on." Co-opting the message: How anti-trans activists hijacked a tool meant to help trans people 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z Biden's detractors love to say he has low energy and diminished mental faculties, but after a long day of cross-country travel and several personal appearances on Monday, that wasn't evident. Joe Biden's road show: A big win in California, but there's trouble ahead 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Garland Garrett Jr.'s mental faculties began to decline in recent years, his family members said in an interview. Long-term-care facilities are using the pandemic as a shield, even in lawsuits unrelated to covid-19 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Praised as a way to keep mental faculties sharp, more than 100 million people around the world are estimated to try the puzzles regularly. Japan's Kaji, the "godfather of Sudoku," dies at 69 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z “Dotard” is defined as “an old person, especially one who has become physically weak or whose mental faculties have declined.” Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Capturing the content and context of the Capitol riot 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z Although plants clearly sense and react to their environments, this doesn’t mean they possess complex mental faculties, they argue. Food for thought? French bean plants show signs of intent, say scientists 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z Tapper reprimands Trump for making allegations about Biden’s mental faculties with no evidence to back them up, and points out that her family have responded with anger when Donald Trump’s cognitive abilities have been questioned. Trump trails Biden as campaigns head for battleground states – live 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z Yet 20 days after Cain’s death, on 19 August, his Twitter account posted Trump’s latest ad: “Boy, it sure looks like Joe Biden is losing his mental faculties.” How Donald Trump canceled the Republican party | Sidney Blumenthal 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z A stream of Republican political adverts questioning Biden’s mental faculties, and showing him losing his train of thought or struggling to remember words, has had the intended effect on Schatz. 'I’m more for Trump than I was before': president clings to narrow lead in Iowa as Biden closes in 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump has boasted about acing a test that measures whether someone’s mental faculties have declined, and he has called on Mr. Biden to take the same test. Biden quip about ‘junkie’ journalist part of long pattern of offending Blacks, RNC official says 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z While none of us wants to render opinions about presidential mental health, we do want assurances that the guy in charge is at least in charge of his mental faculties. Well, the good news is Trump hasn’t entirely lost his mind — or so he says 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z During the impeachment trial, for example, Fox hosts repeatedly attacked the character and mental faculties of Democratic representatives and sworn witnesses, while focusing almost exclusively on the testimony of pro-Trump Republicans. Perspective | Twelve signs Trump would try to run a fascist dictatorship in a second term 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z Talmadge is one of many psychiatric professionals who have regularly sounded the alarm on Trump's mental faculties. Psychiatrist asserts that Trump’s Harvey Weinstein rant was "a symptom" of dementia 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z “She would have never done this” if her mental faculties were intact, he told an ally at a White House holiday party, according to a senior administration official. Inside the decision to impeach Trump: How both parties wrestled with a constitutional crisis 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani is now working for a "criminal family" and has lost complete control of his mental faculties, actor Robert De Niro said during a Saturday television interview. Rudy Giuliani has become part of a 'criminal family' and 'lost his mind,' Robert De Niro says 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z “What voters are really looking for is how this person performs and are his or her mental faculties all together.” Editorials from around New England 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z At times their shenanigans escalate to such a ridiculous peak of stupidity that, even allowing that panic may be interfering with the men’s mental faculties, you may want to chuck things at the screen. Review: Small-town crime saga 'The Death of Dick Long' finds the grace notes in its characters' stupidity 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z At it has frequently in the past, the reference to Trump’s mental faculties triggered an emotional response, and a flurry of tweets. Trump threatens ‘obliteration’ after Iran suggests he has a ‘mental disorder’ 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z Up to 46 percent of all surgery patients are struck annually by “postoperative delirium,” a little-known, little-appreciated condition in hospitalized patients that is marked by confused thinking, disruption of mental faculties and anxiety. Perspective | Harrowing delirium afflicts millions after surgery, especially the elderly. I know. It hit me and it took months to overcome. 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Specific patterns of brain activity are thought to underlie specific processes or computations important for various mental faculties, such as memory. Better Memory Through Electrical Brain Ripples 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease progressively paralyzes a person, while maintaining the mental faculties, until they can’t move, speak, swallow or breathe. Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z Imagine that as their mental faculties diminish, so do their physical abilities. Opinion | Alzheimer’s is a cruel thief. Don’t blame caregivers for still finding joy. 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Make 2019 your most focused, productive year yet and sharpen your mental faculties. From Salon Marketplace: Tools and trainings to help you get your mind right in 2019 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z Chervyatiuk said he considered the money to be payment for care he provided to Bridgeman as her health and mental faculties failed. Ex-Orthodox priest accused of stealing from elderly woman 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z The notion that we have some mental faculty called “reason” that functions independently of our needs, desires, anxieties, and superstitions is, well, Platonic. Francis Fukuyama Postpones the End of History 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z The health and mental faculties of Sumner Redstone, the founder and chairman emeritus of Viacom, and the majority owner of NAI, are a flashpoint for dispute in the battle for control. Video of Redstone patriarch to be reviewed in CBS legal battle 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z But a little-known problem is what to do about the vast cache of firearms in the homes of aging Americans with impaired or declining mental faculties. Unlocked and loaded: Families confront dementia and guns 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z This raises the most daunting challenge of all: finding ways to ensure that we will abide by our previous commitments, made while in full control of our mental faculties. Perspective | Reflections of a dementia specialist: I want to stop working before I embarrass myself 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Quixote had read a few too many books of chivalry and, owing to some deterioration of his mental faculties, fancied himself a knight in shining armor. Opinion | Trump’s believe it or not 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Which mental faculty are you using to make this decision? Francis Fukuyama Postpones the End of History 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z He said he was trying to demonstrate he had the mental faculty to speak in a different language. Minnesota man speaks out against his time in a psych unit 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z The window to retire with your record, bank account, mental faculties and self-respect in good standing is nearly microscopic. Roy Jones Jr is retiring 14 years too late – but in his own sweet time 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z The debate over whether health professionals can comment on Trump's mental faculties has raged since the president was elected, with several mental health experts arguing that the Goldwater Rule needs more flexibility regards to Trump. Psychiatry Group Tells Members They Can Discuss President Trump's Mental Health 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Rainier, dozens of researchers shared speculative work on honeybee brains, mouse minds, octopus intelligence, avian cognition, and the mental faculties of monkeys and human children. Daniel Dennett’s Science of the Soul 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z A quick survey will show that the paradox is illusory: Holmes is depressed when there is no target for his mental faculties. The Power of Concentration 2012-12-15T05:00:00Z What would he do if his mental faculties declined as president, I asked in an interview that is believed to be the first in which a president discussed his health prospectively. Meet the Leading Expert on Political Leaders’ Health, and His ‘West Wing’ Doppelgänger 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z But his personal physician Howard Bruenn, who was also at Yalta, observed that the president’s mental faculties remained intact. Five myths on presidential health 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z “Mr. Lieba has expressed concern about his mental faculties and his ability to assist in his defense,” Branom wrote in his request for the mental exam. Defense attorney: Kidnapping suspect had stopped taking meds 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Susan recalls the heartbreak of watching the spirited aunt she loved lose her mental faculties in her eighties. Banking Britain's brains: The story of a scientific resource - BBC News 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Redstone’s mental faculties will be central to the next court hearing. Sumner Redstone: is he a pawn or king in legal battle over media empire? 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z “Of those children, 99 percent will survive, but with limitations in their mental faculties.” El Salvador Advises Against Pregnancy Until 2018 in Answer to Zika Fears 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z When people are in possession of their mental faculties, they are the experts on whether their lives are worth living. Should I Help My Sister End Her Life? 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z We humans may not occupy the dimensional extremes of elephants or honeybees, but what few people realize is that the laws of physics place tough constraints on our mental faculties as well. The Physical Limits to Genius 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Luckily, I didn't need much in the way of mental faculties for my debriefing. Verge Fiction: The Date 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z Every student should receive extensive grounding in how to treat pain, breathing problems and depression and in how to preserve mental faculties. Doctors Are Poorly Trained in End-of-Life Care, but That Can Change 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z He woke to find that his mental faculties had not only returned but had sharpened: “I saw much clearer the difficulties of every thing,” he wrote in a letter to Benjamin Franklin. Zap Your Brain 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Stress weighed on the elder Chester, whose mental faculties were fading. Run from Cuba, Americans cling to claims for seized property 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z By stepping away from the sport at 24, Borland will avoid the kind of head injuries that could leave him crippled, with diminished mental faculties, or prone to fly into uncontrollable rages. 24-year-old NFL player retires over concussion risks 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Although most people recognize that IQ tests do not measure every important mental faculty, we behave as if they do. Rational and Irrational Thought: The Thinking that IQ Tests Miss 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z For those with sound mental faculties, the ability to separate a game’s unreality from the real world is easy enough. ISIS Uses 'GTA 5' In New Teen Recruitment Video 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z That just perpetuates the tendency to dismiss sleep and its critical role in everything from our mental faculties to our metabolic health. The Power of Sleep 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z And when Pearl’s health and mental faculties began to decline in 2008, he invoked the power of attorney. Elderly woman in Va. cheated out of savings by lawyer she trusted, family alleges He then goes on to excitedly speculate about all the potential attack lines based upon her age and allegedly declining mental faculties: Newt and Karl’s latest trick: Inside their good cop-bad cop routine 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Sterling’s estranged wife, Shelley Sterling, watched her husband’s interview and told NBC’s “Today” show that he may be losing his mental faculties. Sterling stirs new dispute with Magic-HIV remarks 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z But old age often brings a decline in mental faculties and many researchers are looking for ways to slow or halt such decline. Genes and intelligence: The 3% solution 2014-05-07T18:33:38Z “There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties,” he wrote. How Smart Is That Doggy in the Window? 2014-04-13T09:45:34Z Is there any evidence that certain brain circuits unique to humans allow us to use these mental faculties that involve imagination? Working Memory and The Movies Streaming In Our Heads 2014-03-29T12:00:22Z Or don’t possess the mental faculties to recognize the nuances of satire? Make Fun Of Everything 2014-03-13T11:03:47Z But lawyers for Ms. Perelman contend it was that very closeness that allowed Mr. Cohen to prey on his father’s declining mental faculties. DealBook: Suit Over Inheritance in the Perelman Family Nears Its End in Court 2014-03-11T01:17:24Z He says she will require long-term care, requiring some assistance with breathing, but is able to swallow and has her mental faculties. Wash. victim of botched laser surgery to get $30M 2013-12-08T19:04:44Z He ploughed on: news is bad for your health, very bad for your mental faculties, and bad for your emotional state. Rolf Dobelli's ideas about not needing news are dangerous 2013-04-18T19:15:01Z And whether we’re educating our children or trying to hold on to our mental faculties as we age, Alloway says improving working memory is key. Around the World in Six Ideas 2013-02-11T07:30:00Z The mother's lawyer, Fabian Farias, said Edith was "not in full control of her mental faculties" and said her physical and psychological wellbeing were in danger. Argentina killer's wedding halted 2012-12-21T18:51:34Z Edith "is not in full control of her mental faculties and her physical and psychological well-being are in danger", said the mother's lawyer, Fabian Farias. Argentina killer's wedding halted 2012-12-21T18:51:34Z Although their mental faculties are normal, they stop growing, lose body fat and suffer from wrinkled skin and hair loss. Scientists in Hong Kong map initial anti-ageing formula 2012-12-20T08:52:29Z Mr. Salomon, who, despite his advanced age is said to have all of his mental faculties, did not return multiple calls seeking comment. DealBook: Citigroup Secretary Accused of Embezzling From Boss 2012-10-19T23:23:55Z But even the Fiver's limited mental faculties are enough to know that the words "Glazers", "tax haven" and "Cayman Islands" mean something less palatable than a vomit-flavoured sausage roll. The Fiver 2012-07-04T15:00:14Z As we have already seen, the cerebral cortex is the seat of the chief mental faculties of man or at least of the highest of these. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z Reference has been made in some fulness to Mr. Wallace’s limitations of the theory of natural selection in the case of man’s mental faculties. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z Leonardo thus aimed to understand the perception of reality through the senses, the structure of the mental faculties and how the nerves configure the muscles and bones. Medicine: Leonardo's anatomy years 2012-04-23T13:50:26.960Z I, with some mental faculties tolerably developed, cannot believe. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties; insanity; as, alienation of mind. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z He was a man of keen mental faculties and had enjoyed the advantages of an unusually thorough education during boyhood. A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance 2012-03-23T02:00:40.930Z Now we intend to treat more the possibilities of how long it is possible for mankind to retain all their mental faculties and enjoy sufficient vital force to battle with the world for a livelihood. Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity 2012-03-22T02:00:38.537Z He is thus stimulated to good conduct, and the diligent employment of all his mental faculties, by the hope of a choice in the assignments, and of securing after rank, by commission, over his comrades. Guide to West Point, and the U.S. Military Academy 2012-03-20T02:00:14.607Z This does not mean that the principle of morality is the result of reason, for moral adjustment is no more specially the work of reason than of any other mental faculty. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z The Italian reports emphasize the marked contagiousness of the disease and its tendency to depress the vital powers, also the weakness of the mental faculties left behind. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z In the present condition of his mental faculties, the captain's obstructive conscience would be partly paralysed, and he would be able to listen to the mate's proposals without overmuch shrinking horror. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z May not this be accounted for in some measure, by the exhaustion of her mental faculties during her paroxysms? Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Thus the mental faculties are essentially acquired powers,—acquired not from without, but by action which generates the faculties it seems to imply. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z The proof of an increase, a growth, of what have been called distinctively the mental faculties, throughout the animal kingdom, is every day stronger. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z It is only when it becomes excessive that observers realise that there is disturbance of the mental faculties, causing the undue persistence and the exaggeration of the grief. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z Whether it exercises his mental faculties in a like degree is another question. Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport 2012-03-03T03:00:17.540Z We have, moreover, convincing proof that the brain may be materially affected, without any deterioration of the mental faculties. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Then his bodily strength or mental faculties give way once for all beneath the strain. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z They speak of a distinction of the mental faculties which all understand and recognize as real, as soon as suggested to their minds. Doctrine of the Will 2012-01-22T03:00:26.997Z The mental faculties are much more completely unbalanced, and the prognosis of the case is more unfavourable. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z I quite expect to see her recover her mental faculties as suddenly as she lost them. Woman and Artist 2012-01-10T03:00:14.960Z The controversies of learned psychologists on the relation of memory and judgment, indeed on the analogies that exist between our several mental faculties, have been as various as they are likely to prove interminable. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z I give this as his own illustration of the character of his mental faculties; it is as good as any I have seen from anyone. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:32.877Z We come now to consider the great and fundamental characteristic of the Will, that by which it is, in a special sense, distinguished from each of the other mental faculties, to wit: that of Liberty. Doctrine of the Will 2012-01-22T03:00:26.997Z Apparently the individual becomes so divided in the use of the mental faculties that there are two states of consciousness. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z The mental faculty upon which it makes the greatest claim is memory, for it is necessary to recollect all the earlier propositions which are referred to. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z It is a disposition dependent upon the combination of all the mental faculties, according to the degree in which the animal may possess them: the reminiscences of animals prove it. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z That which he is taught to call reason in himself, must, forsooth, be only instinct, when applied to the mental faculties of those he calls brutes. Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z There were no new discoveries to arouse their mental faculties, no aspirations for a better condition, and they were as changeless as their tropical climate. Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent 2011-12-24T03:07:57.647Z This dementia progresses until finally there is a state of almost complete obliteration of the mental faculties. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z Lilly said yesterday that Stanford is “absolutely” not faking his condition and isn’t even aware of the extent to which his mental faculties are impaired. Stanford Doctor Claims Financier Is Suicidal, Unfit for Trial 2011-12-22T16:54:53Z That temperature exercises a powerful influence over our mental faculties is evident. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Lilly said today that Stanford is “absolutely’’ not faking his condition and isn’t even aware of the extent to which his mental faculties are impaired. Stanford Doctor Says Financier Is Suicidal, Unfit for Trial 2011-12-21T18:51:01Z Paralysed and dumb for seven long years, he yet retained his mental faculties in their full vigour. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z They have the practical use of their mental faculties, and that suffices. Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. 2011-12-08T03:00:27.177Z They must arouse in it the pleasure of using its mental faculties; and more carefully still, the satisfaction of moral energy. Household Education 2011-12-02T03:00:25.437Z A short time ago study was a pleasure to Frederick, his imagination was brilliant, his mental faculties almost precocious in their development. The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence 2011-11-28T03:00:23.427Z But here he was brought up with a sudden jar that concentrated all his mental faculties along an entirely different road. On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents 2011-11-26T03:00:14.947Z It was the period when, as related by Mr. Herndon, he was engaged in love affairs which some of his friends feared had well-nigh unsettled his mental faculties. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z The poison always blunts one’s mental faculties, especially when given in such a large dose. The Gray Phantom 2011-11-04T02:00:21.427Z Though she was of advanced age, her mental faculties never failed her, and she preserved a religious cheerfulness of mind to the last. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 2011-11-03T02:00:15.113Z They have heads so shaped that the animal propensities are in excess of the moral and mental faculties. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z The reason is, that, to do so, the Sense, as mental faculty, must transcend the very conditions of its existence. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z What of noble intelligence could be looked for from mental faculties long since degraded? Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z Accordingly, a class came to believe that a projection of natural mental faculties into an advanced state of consciousness called the "wisdom faculty" constitutes the final possibility of Alchemy. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z There, too, is his wife, remarkably well preserved in both body and mental faculties. Some Pioneers and Pilgrims on the Prairies of Dakota Or, From the ox team to the aeroplane 2011-10-17T02:00:15.157Z But it is an artificial method which seeks to partition mental faculty into this, that, and the other mental faculties. Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility 2011-10-16T02:00:14.153Z If man can know nothing because of mental imbecility, why suppose that he has a mental faculty at all? Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z There are countries, there are even limited localities, where the moral and mental faculties expand in accordance with external impressions. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z The case admits not of evidence either to our senses or our mental faculties: neither has God given to man any talent by which such a thing is comprehensible. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z But the partial exercise of the mental faculties, embraced in the act of meditation, not only disproportionately develops the cerebral organs; but deranges those which it labors to keep in incessant activity. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z His disease was palsy, rendering respiration difficult, and considerably affecting the organs of speech, but leaving his mental faculties in full vigour to the last. The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, 1835 2011-10-03T02:00:25.363Z And here was Smith, continuing to send Cutler into the huddle under these curcimstances, a loss of a game a given, a loss of all mental faculties apparently the goal. Lovie's lapse: Smith fails to protect Cutler 2011-09-20T14:06:00Z My grandmother had attained a very advanced old age, yet was she straight in person, and perfect in all her mental faculties. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 2011-09-09T02:01:06.280Z No one has yet attempted to explain why it should be "irreligious" to teach writing, or history, or geography; or why it should "destroy a child's soul" to improve his mental faculties. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z Geology is of all "hobbies" the one best calculated not only to develop the physical powers, but also, if pursued with any degree of earnestness, to train and extend the mental faculties. Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils 2011-08-20T02:00:11.557Z But are these mental faculties, which every individual of our species possesses, susceptible of indefinite development? The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z This very worry, this jealousy, by keeping his mental faculties alive, might contribute to longevity. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z We have seen that the vigor and keenness of Mr. Ballou's mind had in no way abated, that every mental faculty still shone brightly as at the prime of his manhood. Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou 2011-08-04T02:00:22.900Z There can scarcely be a better proof of the unreasonableness of Christian doctrine, than the Christian fear of sharpening mental faculties, without binding them down, at the same time, in the chains of dogma. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z So many persons with uncontrolled imaginations, and others with their mental faculties weakened or distorted, often reported the most improbable visions and absurd revelations. Health, Healing, and Faith 2011-07-31T02:00:09.737Z A student whose mental faculties were unusually dull for his age prayed that he might pass his examination in mathematics. Praying for Money 2011-07-31T02:00:09.523Z I have often awoke of a morning with the sensation of a heavy, pressing-down weight upon my mental faculties; and so it was after the dreadful catastrophe narrated in the last chapter. A Fluttered Dovecote 2011-07-29T02:00:21.880Z Bodily fatigue was helping to oppress his mental faculties. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z Her father had been nothing to her while he retained his mental faculties--now, in a condition of slow decay, he was merely a poor invalid, to whom she performed the usual filial duties. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z Man’s mental faculties are viewed as related to his organization, and as developed under the pressure of the necessities of life.13 Kant.—Kant’s relation to the doctrine of evolution is a many-sided one. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z The study of magic in addition to being a fascinating amusement has a pedagogical value, admitted by all professors of psychology; it sharpens the mental faculties, especially those of observation and attention. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z Natural history presented to him no attraction, and the only amusement level with his mental faculties was that of hoaxing natives, or breaking down their religious prejudices. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z His mental faculties had visualized once more the perfections which were hers, and those with which this love of his endowed her. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z It was probably caused by overtaxing the mental faculties. Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity 2011-07-04T02:00:24.763Z The development of these powers in animals does not offer any special difficulty; for with our domesticated animals, the mental faculties are certainly variable, and the variations are inherited. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) 2011-06-27T02:01:01.007Z Doctors advised appointing a guardian last week, saying Bettencourt was suffering a decline in her mental faculties. French court says Bettencourt guardian request invalid 2011-06-20T19:09:10Z Let us add that the nature of the lesions just mentioned does not seem to have any relationship to the condition of the mental faculties. Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z Notwithstanding his distressed situation, neither his mental faculties nor his natural cheerfulness ever forsook him. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2] With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical 2011-06-08T02:00:20.907Z There are few sights more touching than that of a man struck speechless in the course of disease, yet retaining his mental faculties. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z But to avoid enemies, or to attack them with success, to capture wild animals, and to invent and fashion weapons, requires the aid of the higher mental faculties, namely, observation, reason, invention, or imagination. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) 2011-06-27T02:01:01.007Z One accomplished and truthful lady had such experience while her consciousness and all her mental faculties were fully alert. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z It is out of the question to make an entire school pass before a committee in order that 500 pupils may have their mental faculties analysed. Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z After some moments her mental faculties became less uncertain, and with their clearing she became aware of a confusion of sounds. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z Its chief merit is, that it disagrees where it professes to reiterate, and as of two contradictory statements, one must be false, it requires considerable stretching ol the mental faculties to accept both as true. The Bible: what it is 2011-05-31T02:00:29.687Z I, with some mental faculties tolerably developed, can not believe. A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z The Elizabethans used the term in the general sense of the understanding,—wit, the mental faculty, as opposed to will, the faculty of volition. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z To the majority of alienists, the idiot is one who is profoundly affected in his mental faculties, the imbecile is a little less, and the feeble-minded less still. Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z Some have refused to admit that mental faculties were subject to heredity, because the mental characters of the descendants were not precisely those of the progenitors. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Although most people recognize that IQ tests do not measure important mental faculties, we behave as if they do. Rational and Irrational Thought: The Thinking That IQ Tests Miss (preview) 2011-05-01T14:16:30.813Z Without the opportunity afforded by the possession of more than will satisfy the immediate wants, there can be little or no culture of the mental faculties. A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z From the nature of his complaint, Cervantes retained his mental faculties to the very last, and so was able to be the historian of his latter days. The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z The doctor does not know exactly, to two or three years, the normal condition of the mental faculties; nor, after such and such a period of school attendance, the habitual level of instruction reached. Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z This lack of equilibrium leads to a decided modification of the mental faculties. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Sentence after sentence brought no consecutive thought, and at last it dawned upon him that perhaps his sickness had wrecked his mental faculties, and he sank back on the sofa, overwhelmed with dismay. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z He's begun to lose a grip on reality, to begin to lose his mental faculties and that he spends great periods not talking to anybody at all, guards, interrogators or prisoners. UK to press Obama over Guantanamo 2011-04-27T05:01:30Z Liberty is volition acting upon physical instrumentalities, or upon mental faculties, according to a fixed and constituted law of antecedents, and meeting with no impediment or overcoming antagonistic power. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z That the spiritual sense can reach into a realm where the mental faculties cannot follow, and that the spirit of man can perceive what the mind alone cannot comprehend, we have a right to believe. The Girl in Her Teens 2011-04-26T02:00:26.063Z No wonder that the ego takes a perception for real if its reality is vouched for by the mental faculty which ordinarily discharges the duty of testing the reality of things. Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego 2011-04-17T02:00:02.907Z In perfect sleep dreams do not occur, because all the mental faculties are dormant. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z It was then that Monica displayed the quick, incisive working of her suddenly aroused mental faculties. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z Other research quoted by the article also seems to suggest that some mental faculties do keep on improving with age. Study: The 'Best Years of Our Lives' Could Be In Our Eighties 2011-04-05T10:05:00Z He retained his mental faculties in their full vigour almost up to the moment when he ceased to breathe. The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 2011-03-23T02:00:23.527Z The severe drill undergone could hardly fail to call forth their powers of mind, and intimate association with educated and quasi-cultured men serves further to stimulate their mental faculties. Working Women of Japan 2011-03-09T03:00:49.197Z Derangement of the perfect correlation of the mental faculties, in sickness or the weakness of age, is a frequent cause of the wildest and most incoherent visions. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z “What shall I do?” was the question set before a full committee of my mental faculties, assembled, or awakened, to deliberate on the emergency of the moment. Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone 2011-03-03T03:00:50.847Z Action when almost instantaneous is independent of the higher mental faculties, and is but a reflex. Above the Snow Line 2011-03-03T03:00:49.380Z So do I feel that the mental faculties gain an abnormal intensity in proportion as the affections are neglected, and the soil of the heart left untilled. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z The child had formerly been very sickly, and this may have had a crippling effect upon the development of her mental faculties. Riven Bonds. Vol. I. A Novel, in Two Volumes 2011-02-16T03:00:38.687Z It is a singular fact that no one has ever recovered from a near approach to this line, who does not tell the same tale of an exalted perception and intensification of the mental faculties. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z But the immediate action of morphine by no means paralyzes the mental faculties. Habits that Handicap The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy 2011-02-15T03:00:18.787Z Why! she ought to have done her best to keep up her physical as well as her mental faculties—who knows? Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z My constitution would not stand it, besides, tea is of great service to the mental faculties. Success and How He Won It 2011-01-23T03:00:12.077Z Man, from the activity of his mental faculties, cannot avoid reflection: past impressions and images are incessantly passing through his mind with distinctness. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I 2011-01-17T03:00:49.523Z Of course, from the earliest days of his presidency, there were those who questioned Reagan's mental faculties. Did Reagan have Alzheimer's while he was president? 2011-01-14T23:24:00Z That the criteria of truth, and the mental faculties and processes employed, in discovering truth, are the same in moral as in physical science:—5th. The Scientific Basis of National Progress Including that of Morality 2010-12-30T03:00:25.567Z Further research is still needed to confirm whether eating like a Greek will help maintain sharp mental faculties, the authors note. Mediterranean diet tied to slower mental decline 2010-12-29T22:28:29Z These are not corporeal, as the others, but strictly mental faculties; and are, therefore, more noble and excellent. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z Nevertheless many authors have insisted that man is separated through his mental faculties by an impassable barrier from all the lower animals. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I 2011-01-17T03:00:49.523Z In the afternoon, he was on a panel discussing whether and how much chess helps children improve their mental faculties. India Swoons Over Its Chess Champ, and Even the Game 2010-08-09T02:02:00Z Novices at a particular activity rely on general mental faculties, such as working memory, Ericsson argues. For Sight-Reading Music, Practice Doesn't Make Perfect 2010-06-21T13:22:00Z After watching her otherwise healthy husband begin to lose his mental faculties in his mid-50s and become institutionalized at 64, Dr. Perfetto has become one of the most outspoken voices in football’s dementia debate. California Case Will Test N.F.L. Teams? Liability for Former Players? Dementia 2010-04-05T18:22:00Z Mr. Bennett, 76, said he weighed whether to seek a fourth term, but concluded that his physical health is strong and his mental faculties are sharp. Political Tide Could Wash Away Republican Utah Senator 2010-03-26T04:20:00Z My object in this chapter is solely to shew that there is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I 2011-01-17T03:00:49.523Z By all accounts, he had all his mental faculties up until his April 2005 death. 2010-01-27T22:30:00Z She was, then, half stunned as to her mental faculties on finding that her words were mocked at, her appeals disregarded, and even her indignant looks treated as feints and coyness. By Birth a Lady Although it did not prove fatal, his mental faculties were permanently impaired. The Story of Our Hymns Beagle, who had lived some years in England and could talk a little English, resembled us in disposition and in most of our mental faculties. The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer For man is enabled through his mental faculties “to keep with an unchanged body in harmony with the changing universe.” The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I 2011-01-17T03:00:49.523Z As I had not for a very considerable time to set foot beyond the narrow walls of my cell, and my mental faculties were thoroughly engrossed with study, my system required but slight stimulant. Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I In the morning breakfast absorbed his mental faculties until it was consumed. The Land of Strong Men If the mental faculties have not been developed and thoroughly disciplined, the blind musician, however well he may play or sing, will be a failure as a teacher. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" It is a most significant fact that the Chinese themselves recognize the truth that their school system tends to benumb the mental faculties, turning the teachers into machines, and the pupils into parrots. Village Life in China A Study in Sociology “Beagle,” who had lived some years in England and could talk a little English, resembled us in disposition and in most of our mental faculties. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I 2011-01-17T03:00:49.523Z Van Arsdale had now reached his eighty-first year, he had survived his companion four years, his mental faculties were still good, but his strength was failing; yet he attended to business till near the last. "Evacuation Day", 1783 Its Many Stirring Events: with recollections of Capt. John Van Arsdale Persons who work regularly, and, above all, in moderation, especially those who maintain the activity of their physical and mental faculties, live longer than those who abandon active life at the approach of old age. Rambles in Womanland He died on the 13th of November 1640 at the age of about 103, preserving his bodily and mental faculties to the end. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" The boy recovered his mental faculties a month or two after being sent home. The Black Watch A Record in Action Their intelligence and most of their mental faculties are extremely feeble. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I 2011-01-17T03:00:49.523Z A severe attack of erysipelas laid her low this summer; but if it weakened her body it did not depress her mental faculties. Maria Edgeworth Besides sharpening and suppling the mental faculties of young people, and improving their elocution, it kept them to some extent aloof from those low sensual pleasures which were deplorably in vogue amongst them. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second Yet, after a time, this dullness frequently gives way to a fiery redness; not the floridness of health, but the redness of inflammation and false excitement, which indicates a corresponding depreciation of the mental faculties. The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology Keep the whole mental faculty engaged; keep it under the command of the Holy Ghost, for just as in all else that belongs to man, if God does not direct it, Satan will. The Warfare of the Soul Practical Studies in the Life of Temptation As the various mental faculties were gradually developed, the brain would almost certainly have become larger. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I 2011-01-17T03:00:49.523Z Had I been in full possession of my mental faculties, I must surely have noted the similarity of names. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois Four days had elapsed since his removal, and he had sunk so rapidly, that it was now doubtful whether as many more hours remained to him; but his mental faculties were still clear and unclouded. Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story. Instead of making the motive to choice a factor within the concrete process of volition, he regards it as a cause antecedent to the exercise of a special mental faculty. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" I say mental faculties, and I mean to claim a large share of what we call our mental faculties for the higher animals. Lectures on The Science of Language For six weeks the cloud obscures his mental faculties, depriving him of all interference with the administration of the government, and betokening a sad disaster in the future. Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. Mad as he was, no man in possession of all his mental faculties could have been more sublime. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections And similarly with every other mental faculty: most men can follow a simple argument, some a more complex one, but few can reason out unaided a complicated proposition. Belcaro Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions No mental faculties, except the memory, receive any discipline, and the knowledge disappears as fast as it was gained. Maids Wives and Bachelors Indeed, the decay of his mental faculties seems to have been that which he most dreaded. Smeaton and Lighthouses A Popular Biography, with an Historical Introduction and Sequel And those who did not die displayed in varying degree a type of anemia or consumption, and sometimes a decline of the mental faculties, which spoke ill for the salubriousness of the building. The Shunned House This ceaseless taxation of the mental faculties probably represents the most exhausting of all the processes of gaining a decent livelihood. Oliver Goldsmith Ah! my brethren, were it possible to annihilate the inequalities of human life, it would be the banishment of our worthiest virtues, the torpor of our spiritual nature, the palsy of our mental faculties. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 In most instances the mental faculties are comparatively unaffected, although in the later stages there is in general more or less apathy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" But his organs of sight had so far misled his mental faculties, that some little time elapsed before he could be convinced that he saw real objects. Apparitions; or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed True, this harsh division of mental faculties is exactly what is most sterile in Kant, the essential tendency of the German school of thought being to show that the mind always acts en masse. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century There is a bullet in his head that the doctors can not extricate, and it has destroyed his mental faculties completely. Dainty's Cruel Rivals The Fatal Birthday Ames's Almanac was a joyless sort of light literature, but at least it did not reduce intellectual recreation to a mere frivolous indulgence of the mental faculties. Noah Webster American Men of Letters To the last moment, he was in the possession of his mental faculties. Allopathy and Homoeopathy Before the Judgement of Common Sense! Love is popularly supposed to dull the mental faculties. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories Of course they conflicted with the understanding, with the common daylight of the mind, but then might there not be some mental faculty higher than the understanding? English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century So the mental faculties may become one-sided by injudicious training. In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education All we remark, is, that some of the ordinary mental faculties act in such cases with increased energy. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. The mental faculties of Louis-Napoleon present many great superiorities and great deficiencies. Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 Hence, society has the right to demand that all, who wish to satisfy their wants, shall exert themselves, according to their physical and mental faculties, in the production of the requisite wealth. Woman under socialism This arises partly from the inaptitude of a still imperfect brain; but in proportion as the latter advances toward its mature state, the mental faculties also become vigorous and active.” A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) We ask what information is afforded by these mental faculties in respect to the nature or attributes of the objects known,—matter, mind, God, duty. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion A vegetable diet, moreover, promotes and preserves a clearness and a generally healthful state of the mental faculties. Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery Nevertheless, in the face of these facts, many authors have insisted that man is divided by an inseparable barrier from all the lower animals in his mental faculties. Was Man Created? Precisely like man, she shall be placed in position to fully develop all her physical and mental faculties, to fulfil her duties, and to exercise her rights. Woman under socialism He was carefully conveyed to his residence at Horncastle, and lingered alive several weeks, retaining his mental faculties, but having no sense of feeling below his neck. A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time I once heard him say that the mental faculty which had been of most use to him and had given him most pleasure was his facility in acquiring language. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 The sum of his first three questions, was,—What were the effects of excluding animal food from your diet on your bodily strength, your mental faculties, and your appetite and animal spirits? Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery The next mental faculty is reason, which stands at the summit; but still there are few persons who will deny that animals possess some power of reasoning. Was Man Created? For thousands of years she has been oppressed, and she has been deprived or stunted in the opportunity and possibility to unfold her mental faculties. Woman under socialism They had the wisdom to understand that their women could only effectively discharge the functions assigned to them by Nature by the free development of their bodies, and full cultivation of their mental faculties. The Truth About Woman The mental faculties of animal species, as well as their physical characters, depend on their ancestral hereditary mneme. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study Although such individuals appear to reason, can it be said that they are in full possession of their mental faculties? Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso Religion is a mental faculty or disposition which independent of, nay, in spite of, sense and reason, enables man to apprehend the Infinite under different names, and under varying disguises. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems It holds, not only of a bone, a muscle, a nerve, an organ of sense, a mental faculty; but of every gland, every viscus, every element of the body. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I It thus becomes intelligible that the brain and mental faculties should be capable under similar conditions of nearly the same course of development, and consequently of performing nearly the same functions. Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer A general paralytic in his last stage is little more than a vegetating ruin, in whom the nervous activities are decomposed little by little, after the gradual disappearance of all the mental faculties. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study "Has Mrs. Damer been abroad for as long a time?" resumed her questioner, a vision arising on his mental faculties of a lemon-coloured woman with shoes down at heel. Masterpieces of Mystery Riddle Stories The law of reversed effort is at work paralysing our mental faculties. The Practice of Autosuggestion Others experience no acceleration of physical energy, but a strange rousing of all their mental faculties. Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war He was cheerful—in full possession of his mental faculties, but lacked the vigor to exert them. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 He possessed to the end his mental faculties. Pius IX. And His Time Now, in fact, the inspiration of the Christian, while it differs in its subject from that of the poet, rests on the same mental faculty, and has analogous conditions. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors To confuse is to bring into a state of mental bewilderment; to confound is to overwhelm the mental faculties; to daunt is to subject to a certain degree of fear. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Gasping, he came out of it with pink starting into his cheeks, and his mental faculties somewhat better organized. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China Well—I should have thought that to a gentleman like you it would prove—a—more deleterious to the mental faculties. Say and Seal, Volume I Her mental faculties are still unimpaired, and she retains all her senses except that of sight, of which she was deprived at the advanced age of ninety-nine years by an attack of the measles. Notes and Queries, Number 196, July 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc He says he has demonstrated that it is possible to give to an animal or a human being more brains, and consequently a better use of the mental faculties. What a Young Woman Ought to Know He was in many ways a remarkable man with a mind well stored with knowledge, and he retained all of his mental faculties unclouded until the end of his life. As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century Here all the bodily and all the mental faculties of man appear to be folded up in a worse than mediæval stupor. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge In the spring of the following year Madame Dupin's health and mental faculties utterly broke down. Famous Women: George Sand Select such books for them as will develop the mental faculties, something that contains food for the brain. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity Doctor Herzenstube roundly declared that the abnormality of the prisoner's mental faculties was self-evident. The Brothers Karamazov The soul, having thus an independent existence, when the frame decays sets itself loose therefrom, taking with it the senses and passions, as well as the mental faculties of memory, understanding, and will. Dante: His Times and His Work Otherwise it would follow that if Socrates had grown rich, or had lost his mental faculties by illness, he would no longer have been called Socrates. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive The infirmities of old age, however, she was happily to be spared, preserving her energy and mental faculties, as will be seen, till just before her death. Famous Women: George Sand “And,” continued the doctor testily, as if he did not like being interrupted, “the more I examine into man’s nature the more curious and contradictory I find it—I mean, in the mental faculties.” The Kopje Garrison A Story of the Boer War For my part I agree thoroughly with the young doctor who maintained that the prisoner's mental faculties have always been normal, and that he has only been irritable and exasperated. The Brothers Karamazov The instances are not few in which deafness, and the impairing of the mental faculties, have resulted from that barbarous practice familiarly known as "boxing the ears." Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes She died in full possession of all her mental faculties, but was a cripple and helpless.” Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8 Meanwhile, the force of the nations who were destined to achieve the coming transformation was unexhausted, their physical and mental faculties were unimpaired. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 Writing of his conversion, he says that 'the awfulness of that day of God's visitation can never cease to be remembered by me with peculiar gratitude as long as I possess my mental faculties. A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds It is quite likely that he will not recover the use of his mental faculties, though it is rather premature to speak definitely yet, and I should not unduly alarm the two ladies.” Lorimer of the Northwest The purely mental faculties are connected during life with material organs, and are hence subjected to precisely the same laws. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes Reason, by which we ordinarily mean the conscious exercise of the mental faculties, plods along as if on four feet; intuition soars on wings. The New Theology He thus, to a certain extent, agrees with the Scottish school, but he differs from them in rejecting altogether the doctrine of mental faculties. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" His whole mental faculties were called into play to endeavour imagination to retain that soft, light pressure upon his hand. The Sign of the Spider "I adore cultivating my mental faculties even more than I like to misbehave." Athalie In the cultivation of the brain and mental faculties, each organ should be exercised directly upon its own appropriate objects, and not merely roused or addressed through the medium of another organ. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes But there are extremely few, dependent only on mental faculties, in which they have not attained the rank next to the highest. The Subjection of Women With the return of her mental faculties she began to give some thought to escape. The Trail to Yesterday But notwithstanding this, and notwithstanding his great age, his mental faculties remained so unimpaired that it was hard to believe his death could be so near. Old Familiar Faces All his great mental faculties had been lost; only hard days, pain, and disappointment had been his lot. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales Perfect harmony in the exercise and development of his mental faculties he can never possess, any more than he can exhibit perfect physical beauty and proportion. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes Bradstreet was ninety years of age, but in the full possession of his mental faculties. Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply Having established himself close to Keswick in 1804, he prosecuted a literary career with the most untiring industry until his mental faculties at last failed him some thirty-six years later. The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) In the dog, for example, the sense of smell predominates; and we accordingly find that, through the medium of this sense, his mental faculties are most commonly exercised. Anecdotes of Dogs And all profound physiologists agree that from the same cause the mental faculties suffer in the same ratio. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Again his eyes bored piercingly into mine, and I felt as though all the man's mental faculties were ranged to assail me, but I guess I ran the gauntlet. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated Our visitor seemed to pull his mental faculties together. Ravensdene Court Every youth who desires to cultivate his mental faculties ought to hail such enterprises with joy, and pledge his noblest efforts to sustain them. The Printer Boy. Or How Benjamin Franklin Made His Mark. An Example for Youth. The mental faculties of pointers are extremely acute. Anecdotes of Dogs His mental faculties had recovered their force, and with the removal of the disease, the healthfulness and elasticity of his twenty-five years were beginning to compensate for the lost powers of his limbs. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster It is not a mental faculty at all. Marge Askinforit He was using all his mental faculties in endeavouring to decide what it might be best for him to do in the present emergency. Linda Tressel It stated that he, George Bertram, senior, of Hadley, being in full use of all his mental faculties, made this as his last will and testament. The Bertrams It must be remembered that his disease never affected his mind, and that, like most persons who die of consumption, he retained the full possession of his mental faculties even unto the end. Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel and Selections from his Writings So 344 far, he had kept his promise; but, with physical weariness reacting on his mental faculties, he was only conscious of a hazy idea that Gladwyne’s death had released him from his pledge. The Long Portage Then, to avoid thinking of man's insignificance, he returned to a sexual theme, that personal sanctuary, as ineluctable appetites constituted so much of his mental faculties and preoccupations. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais The various development of the skull allows of an approximate inference as to the various degrees of development of the brain and of the mental faculties. Freedom in Science and Teaching. from the German of Ernst Haeckel She still looks pretty well in the face and continues in the possession of all her mental faculties. Fasting Girls Their Physiology and Pathology But many of the intellectual women of Europe are taking it, too—and with the sole purpose of reinvigorating their mental faculties and recapturing the physical endurance necessary to their work. Black Oxen The chief studies of this remarkable and illustrious student and thinker for many decades past have been those of the senses and mental faculties of insects. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science But as he ran along that lane, and as his mental faculties regained their normality Brent himself did some piecing together. In the Mayor's Parlour He added, however, that even if the inhabitants of the other earths did not have the same mental faculties that we have, they were at least beings endowed with reason and instinct. The Goose Man They are, in consequence, unable to develop their mental faculties and to enjoy high intellectual pleasures. The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus Without any aid from letters or education, some of the lower mental faculties are developed in a remarkable degree. The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) When we study the manners of an insect, it is necessary for us to take account of its mental faculties as well as of its sense organs. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science On the voyage, his mental faculties becoming more erratic, the officers took the command from him and entrusted it to Lieutenant James Degges. The Story of Commodore John Barry Many cases are on record whose history is well authenticated where the mental faculties of the offspring have been totally destroyed. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies Sin, which greatly weakened and darkened his mental faculties, has not taken away his desire and love for knowledge. The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus The finest things among them were the dialogues in the style of villagers, with oaths and bad French, to elevate the mental faculties of the peasants. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life It is absolutely necessary to bear in mind the mental faculties of insects in order to judge with a fair degree of accuracy how they use their senses. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Let no one think that he is doing wrong in using his mental faculties. Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Then the beauty and magnitude of the scenery within the scope of vision exalt the mental faculties, soul and body become exhilarated, the appetite is quickened 139and all the symptoms of convalescence ensue. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Hence, however intense may be the application of our mental faculties or of our physical powers in heaven, we shall ever remain strangers to the well-known feelings of fatigue and prostration. The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus His mental faculties had been sufficiently restored for him to recognize every one around him, but his memory was still clouded, and his thoughts sadly confused. Fairy Fingers A Novel Death does not extinguish the mental faculties, thought does not cease, but the conscious and thinking being passes from scenes present to scenes eternal. The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada Regarding also the education of the human mind as the improvement and development of the mental faculties, I shall consider the study of Physics as a means towards the attainment of this end. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Idleness corrodes the mental faculties, and thus causes depression and gloom. The Young Maiden The damage was completed by another idiot who named the new branch the Psi Corps, merely because the basic capacity for extra-rational mental faculties is technically signified by the Greek letter 'psi.' Shock Absorber Its vast, ever-growing mind would have given new expansion to our own mental faculties. Fairy Fingers A Novel When the mental faculties are symmetrical and harmonious in their operation, no particular feature of style may stand out prominent. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism Three of his daughters, Cynthia, Harriet and Angeline—lived to be over eighty,—retained their memories and their mental faculties to the last, and preserved many interesting reminiscences of their father's revolutionary career. Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party) From this time he suffered by restlessness rather than pain; though his nerves were apparently much fluttered, his mental faculties never seemed stronger, when he was thoroughly awake. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II To this effect: The mental faculties of man and woman are unlike, but not unequal. The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother That suicide involved the deliberate termination of one's existence while in the full possession of the mental faculties. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 While Paul was sitting quietly in the private office, smoking a cigar with all his mental faculties at their highest tension, the clock in the corner suddenly struck three. Tales of Fantasy and Fact Of mental faculties, the author whose ideas we are stating, claims a large share for the higher animals. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy It chanced that Moggy had had a sleep, and she awoke with her mental faculties much cleared, when the constable entered and laid Willie on a mat not far from her bed. Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication The beauty and perfection of all the other mental faculties are dependent on it. The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy But surely this difference lies in the subject-matter, not in the nature of our mental faculties. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Was it not probable that they had been deceived by some fancied resemblance when excitement had possessed them to such a degree that it had deprived them of the full use of their mental faculties? Monte-Cristo's Daughter The natural sound, healthy organism of that organ, and the bright, active nature of his mind, however, prevented a total wreckage of the mental faculties. History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Once this rational foundation has been laid for the formation of a child’s character, more immediate attention can be given to the development of its mental faculties and social tendencies. Mary Wollstonecraft The adventure of the Devil's Thumb, the reappearance of the dog under such fantastic circumstances, gave the finishing touch to their mental faculties, and murmurs broke out on all sides. The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras Ah! my brethren, were it possible to annihilate the inequalities of human life, it would be the banishment of our worthiest virtues, the torpor of our spiritual natures, the palsy of our mental faculties. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 In The Origin of Species he devoted a chapter to "the diversities of instinct and of the other mental faculties in animals of the same class." Evolution in Modern Thought This indicates that the want of protection consequent on the bright colour of the female makes itself felt, and is obviated by an increased development of the mental faculties. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays The full exercise of them requires a certain culture of the mental faculties, and consequently is confined to a comparatively small number of men. The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings These children have capacity, and would rival Europeans, with the like instruction, in the developement of their mental faculties. The Substance of a Journal During a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America and Frequent Excursions Among the North-West American Indians, In the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823. As well might we expect a man to be born in the full maturity of his mental faculties, or an infant to run before it had learned the use of its limbs. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 When we thank God unctuously that we live not as our ancestors lived and as the "uncivilized" live today, we are displaying the decay of our mental faculties. Riviera Towns Turning to the mind of man, we meet with many difficulties in attempting to understand, how those mental faculties, which are especially human, could have been acquired by the preservation of useful variations. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays The work is unending both by day and night, the anxiety is constant, and the strain upon both the physical and mental faculties unceasing. Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 The exploits of Mr. Gordon Cumming give us a lively picture of their habits; but there is nothing in his work which affords the slightest interest in their mental faculties. Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals When the brain is excited, by stimulating drinks taken into the stomach, it produces a corresponding excitement of the mental faculties. A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School In this condition he lingered, sinking by a slow and gradual decline, but preserving his serenity and the full possession of his mental faculties. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886 A number of his mental faculties have no relation to his fellow men, or to his material progress. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays The discipline which is the main end in education is simply control acquired over one's mental faculties; without this discipline no man is a strong and accurate thinker. Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power The assumption of a variety of characters by a person of irritable and delicate nerves, has often a tragical effect on the mental faculties. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 The child is thus developing not only the mental faculties, but is also acquiring increased power of regulation and co-ordination, through the training of the faculties of the cerebellum. Spirit and Music On music, too, he set high value, while geometry he considered did not only help forward astronomy, but is a fine exercise of the mental faculties. The Golden Grasshopper A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham The mental faculties must have perfect freedom before they will give out their best. Pushing to the Front Some patients were depressed and irritable, and some were blind or deaf, probably from gross lesion; in one patient the mental faculties generally were lowered. Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre The constant practising of virtue Strengthens the mental faculties, and he Whose judgment stronger grows acts always right. Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources But to hold in serene contemplative action the mental faculties in the turbid excitement of debate, so as to see truth clearly and set it forth such as it is, this I cannot attain to. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 But to this, in the then disordered condition of my mental faculties, I could find no satisfactory reply. The Log of a Privateersman Such reading takes the spring and snap out of the mental faculties, weakens the intellect, and makes the brain torpid and incapable of grappling with great principles and difficult problems. Pushing to the Front I might have known better; but this mutiny seems somehow to have strained my mental faculties until sometimes I almost think they are stranded and ready to carry away altogether. The Missing Merchantman It was her way of stimulating her mental faculties. Rabbi and Priest A Story It may be said positively that the original group of mental faculties remain the same. Quiet Talks on Power Some of his mental faculties have become stunted and atrophied through lack of exercise. What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular Every mental faculty is quickened, every power of thought and expression spurred. Pushing to the Front So-called Exaltation of the mental faculties, especially of the senses: increased acuteness of vision, hearing, touch, memory, and the mental functions generally. The Story of the Mind If very badly marked they denote that in the latter part of life the subject may be disposed to insanity proceeding from a worrying disposition, and often from the overstraining of the mental faculties. Palmistry for All Second—results in the personality, that is in the appearance, and the mental faculties. Quiet Talks on Power During the latter, he not infrequently does his best to deaden the child's mental faculties. What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular The attempt to become a good public speaker is a great awakener of all the mental faculties. Pushing to the Front Hence in order to constitute experience the mind has to perform a more or less complex series of operations, which are commonly referred to certain mental faculties, such as memory, imagination, and judgment. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia They have presentiments and psychic experiences, dreams, clairvoyance, and such like, which they often spoil by their reasoning faculties, and they endeavour to answer all problems through the medium of their mind or mental faculties. Palmistry for All Sometimes these moral twists and quirks in our mental faculties are an inheritance through one or more generations. Quiet Talks on Power He was an enthusiast in politics in early and middle life, and while his mental faculties remained unimpaired his interest in political movements was great—and usually it was in sympathy with the Democratic Party. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 We have no right to draw that inference from the few attempts which have been made on a part of the race whose mental faculties have, through many generations, been crippled by disuse. Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854) Through the necessary adjustments growing out of the close relationships of men to animals, the mental faculties of both have been greatly stimulated and advanced. The Human Side of Animals These were men who died either on transports, or who when brought to us were too much impaired in mind to remember anything,—for the loss or derangement of mental faculties was no uncommon occurrence. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 "The discipline of the mental faculties" is a talisman of unusual potency with them. The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart The accountant adds up figures all day and has no chance to exercise his judgment or other mental faculties. How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science His mental faculties became somewhat impaired before he died. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 During this condition, there was a sudden exaltation of the mental faculties, often a wonderful command of language, sometimes the power of thought-reading, at other times, as was alleged, the gift of prophecy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 And then again one of your little Apemen finally does conceive a good idea, or part of one, after thirty years, more or less, of constant strain upon his mental faculties. Born Again Besides, there is always more or less incoherence in the communications made very shortly after death, even when the communicator has kept his full mental faculties up to his last moments. Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research About a hundred converts were gained during the famine; but he was forced to teach them very slowly, their mental faculties were so weakened by their state of exhaustion. Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field Not only so, but he attempts to show that the mental faculties of man are derived by slight variations, long continued, from the measure of intellect possessed by lower animals. What is Darwinism? Is it the lack of something which normal man possesses, or is it rather a disproportion, a disharmony between the various individual mental faculties of these individuals? Studies in Forensic Psychiatry At such times he could act with icy coolness, and his mental faculties seemed temporarily to acquire an abnormal keenness. The Devil Doctor Communications from persons having suffered in their mental faculties—Unexpected communications from unknown persons—The respect due to the communicators—Predictions—Communications from children. Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research The life which absorbed every mental faculty in its simple preservation. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon His thoughts had become momentarily introspective, and when his mental faculties returned to a realization of the present he saw that the girl was regarding him with an intense and wondering gaze. The Boss of the Lazy Y His entire industrial career, however, is characterized by an inability to fit harmoniously into the situation at hand, not because of an intellectual deficiency, but because of the disharmony between his various mental faculties. Studies in Forensic Psychiatry For two things I have reason to be most thankful, viz., that the mental faculties have remained quite untouched, and also that my own health and strength have been found sufficient for the occasion. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle The most important of these arguments is founded upon the communications of persons whose mental faculties had been impaired by illness for a more or less long period before their deaths. Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research At the time I met him he was 84 years of age, in full possession of his mental faculties. Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 Only one generally known effort in the realm of Thought bears any comparison to this, examined in reference to the vigor, breadth, and variety of the mental faculties which it called into requisition. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy And the news of David's sudden and lonely departure affected her more powerfully than the prospect of Mary's marriage, which had, in the first place, occupied all her mental faculties. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches A lady was caring for her father, whose mental faculties were weakened by age. Cheerfulness as a Life Power She suffered from weakness in the head, and her mental faculties were impaired. Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research This vice, commenced at or before the period of puberty, interferes seriously with the development of the brain and the evolution of the mental faculties. Manhood Perfectly Restored Prof. Jean Civiale's Soluble Urethral Crayons as a Quick, Painless, and Certain Cure for Impotence, Etc. Your mental faculties are stimulated into their fullest activity, and you bend every effort toward the purpose before you. Model Speeches for Practise You see, his wandering is simply the result of weakness; as the weakness increases, the mental faculties will probably cease gradually to act at all. A Canadian Heroine, Volume 2 A Novel I shall not live to see it, but a time will come when this preparation of the mental faculties will be regarded as the basis of all education. The Mystic Will A Method of Developing and Strengthening the Faculties of the Mind, through the Awakened Will, by a Simple, Scientific Process Possible to Any Person of Ordinary Intelligence Now I take it that these people stigmatized as dunces are but men of ill-balanced mental faculties, yet perhaps, in a great degree, superior to the average of minds. The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art "The change in his mind will have to come pretty soon if I am to retain my mental faculties," she declared. David Harum A Story of American Life The ruins of mental faculties touch our imagination, owing, perhaps, to that tenderness for antiquity which has preserved for us the remains of Tintern Abbey. Masques & Phases Her suddenly wakened mental faculties were running down like those of a watch which has been shaken to make it go for a few seconds. By the Light of the Soul A Novel The peacefulness of the twilight hour was lulling his mental faculties, and the perfumes of summer's zenith were stirring his senses like music of the Nile. The Parts Men Play Causes.—The intelligence and mental faculties are not impaired. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada Your father is in the full possession of all his mental faculties, and can dispose of all his property exactly as he pleases. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 It develops practically all the mental faculties and personal attributes. Public Speaking Within a week that love of public speech and useful service had kindled his mental faculties into a creative glow. The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service His mental faculties had deserted him a good while before his decease: and his decease was gentle and scarcely perceptible. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two Blows and Falls upon the Head.—Sometimes such injuries are forgotten, but they result infrequently in stealthily developed, but none the less dangerous, conditions, which may result in the derangement of all mental faculties. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada The present prison system seems almost to have for its aim the wrecking and the destruction of the mental faculties. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2 We now began to notice that brightening of the mental faculties, which I had heard spoken of, in persons near their end. Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons He deemed all real knowledge of a commencement inaccessible to us, and the inquiry into it an overpassing of the essential limits of our mental faculties. Auguste Comte and Positivism I was afraid that she would not know what to buy; but, as the morning wore away, I realized that her mental faculties were not dimmed in the least. Jacqueline of Golden River I remarked in my illness the complete inertion, inaction, and destruction of my chief mental faculties. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals Moreover, by the prizes open under a popular government, the mental faculties of orators are perpetually practised and whetted, and as it were, rubbed bright, so that they shine free as the state itself. On The Art of Reading Their native stimulant does not seem to affect either their physical or their mental faculties, and, all scientific theories to the contrary, their children are strong, healthy, and bright. Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan Scientific Management provides the fullest opportunities for every man to think, to exercise his mental faculties, and to plan 1. in doing the work itself, as will be shown at length in chapters that follow. The Psychology of Management The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and Installing Methods of Least Waste It is well known that the stronger and more insupportable passions sharpen not only the physical but the mental faculties in an extraordinary degree. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One It depends upon the force of evidence upon your individual mind, and the evidence remaining the same and your mental faculties remaining unimpaired—you cannot believe otherwise any more than you can fly. Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 We know something, it is true, of the physiological functions at certain cerebral regions, but as yet nothing is known of the localisation of any particular mental faculty, whether criminal or otherwise. Crime and Its Causes He could not at once adjust his mental faculties to an incomprehensible difference affecting everything. The Day of the Beast This utilization, by the mental faculties alone, of knowledge acquired by physical experience, always produces an agreeable sub-consciousness of power—the ability to be, at the same time, active and indolent. Bressant It is true that in particular instances we find the first dawning of the mental faculty in an animal, but it is only very faint; so this does not affect the broad general principle. The Law and the Word If this poor child had been deprived of its mental faculties, instead of being deprived of its life, the cause would, in all likelihood, never have been discovered. Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject. The dream is not a pathological phenomenon, and it does not leave behind an enfeeblement of the mental faculties. Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners So of the other senses, and their related mental faculties. Catharine Having intended again the slaughter of the king through folly and the loss of my mental faculties, I have been polluted by sin. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Again, the mental faculties of Italy had for three centuries been taxed to the utmost in studies wide apart from the field of religious faith. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots The result of the increased circulation through the various organs is that they work with greater vigour, hence the mental faculties are brightened for a time, and the muscular strength seems increased. The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition The philosopher first admits the exercise of smell to his Frankenstein, and enumerates the mental faculties which might be expected to be set in operation under the changing impressions made upon that one sense. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) The conscience is one of the mental faculties of man acquired by selection and rendered possible by the construction and development of the commonwealth of the state. Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 In respect, then, to brain structure and the more important mental faculties we find that no race is radically unlike the others. Sex and Society Meanwhile, the force of the nations who were destined to achieve the coming transformation was unexhausted; their physical and mental faculties were unimpaired. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots He believed in education as a training of the mental faculties, and thought that undergraduates should learn to use their own minds. The Life of Froude In poetry, life, or a portion of life, lives again, resuscitated and presented to our mental faculty through art. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series I would say here that I do not accept the suggestion, recently advanced, that the mental faculty of woman is qualitatively different from that of man. The Black Man's Place in South Africa Defoe "was now at least sixty years of age, afflicted with the gout and stone, but retained all his mental faculties entire." Daniel Defoe Let us distinctly recognize that it is not our task to explain the origin of mind, or even of a single mental faculty. The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 But as her friend continued to receive her bubbling announcements with stiff indifference, Flossy, in her perplexity, began to bend her acute mental faculties more searchingly on her idol. Unleavened Bread It differs from hallucination, because there is no organic disturbance: it is, or claims to be, a temporary enhancement, not a partial disintegration, of the mental faculties. Christian Mysticism But the Egyptian, with mental faculties unrotted by creedal fatuities like our own, would not so feed 'of the chameleon's dish,'—needed something more than words, words, and words. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 But their mental faculties more than compensate for such bodily deficiencies. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 We take for granted, I repeat, that all man's mental faculties are germinally, potentially, present in protoplasm; we seek the history of their development. The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 The constitution of the new kingdom of Poland, in 1815, entered essentially into the same views; and was in every respect favourable to the development of the mental faculties of the nation. Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations By sheer force of will she continued to shut out Derek from her thought, concentrating all her mental faculties on the arguments and persuasions she should bring to bear on Dorothea. The Inner Shrine The body of your child has not the blooming, blushing form of nature, but the cold marble cast of a statue; and it imprints itself upon the disposition, the spirit, the mental faculties. The Christian Home I had always felt myself set far above him by my superior mental faculties and my greater will power over the crowd, though, alas! not always over my own demon. The Dweller on the Threshold All our knowledge of mental faculties, other than our own, really consists of an inferential interpretation of bodily activities—this interpretation being founded on our subjective knowledge of our own mental activities. The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 When the ego gains complete control over the mental faculties, so that the mind may be directed as the individual will suggests, the student has mastered the path of Raja Yoga. Cosmic Consciousness As she did not appear to be in full possession of her mental faculties, she was sent to the Hôtel-Dieu, where she remained in a semi-comatose condition. Master of His Fate But wide use proves conclusively the possession of the higher mental faculties, for, without such faculties, the above terms would be incomprehensible to the people and would find no place in common speech. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic We were all weary; the strain was weakening our mental faculties; the most sensible and philosophic cherished the queerest thoughts. The Siege of Kimberley The question presses upon us; if there is a sequence of physical functions in animal development, is there not perhaps also a sequence in the development of the mental faculties? The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 Mrs. Unwin, who had supported Cowper through so many dark and suicidal hours, afterwards became palsied and lost her mental faculties. The Art of Letters Despite the stunned despair which possessed his mental faculties, his physical senses were keenly acute. The Frontiersmen Still further evidence proving Japanese possession of the higher mental faculties may be found in the wide prevalence and use of the most highly generalized philosophical terms. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic I am using my Attention to develop my mental faculties, so as to give the "I" a perfect instrument with which to work. A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga They have a healthy balance of mental faculties, even if they are not very learned or artistic. The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 Besides, sexual gratification is always followed by exaltation of the mental faculties, with, in my experience, no depressing reaction such as follows pleasure excited by mental causes alone. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women His mental faculties are ever on the alert. Ticket No. "9672" Some writers hold that the Japanese are inherently deficient in the higher mental faculties. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Intuition is just as real a mental faculty as is Intellect—or, to be more exact, is just as much a collection of mental faculties. A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga And by virtue of the same attribute we follow with breathless suspense the minute description of the declining days of a great scientist, who feels his physical and mental faculties gradually ebbing away. Best Russian Short Stories He who would develop his will-power and mental faculties, unfolding the inner senses, and latent powers, follows the path of "Raja Yoga." A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga In the same way then any mental faculty becomes atrophied if it is unused. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour The following exercises are meant to aid you in getting under control, such mental faculties will produce voluntary movements. The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga "Seriously," inquired Kerns, delighted, "do you think your friend, Mr. Keen, could encompass my matrimony against my better sense and the full enjoyment of my unimpaired mental faculties?" The Tracer of Lost Persons Or else, we must trust to time or an accident to awaken her dormant mental faculties. Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work Why, my dear young sir, your recent sad bereavement must have temporarily deranged your mental faculties, that at your age you can contemplate adopting such a desiccated mode of existence. Hillsboro People The pictures we have in our minds when awake do not reappear in the mirror of our dreams until our mental faculties have been well rested by sleep. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle It is probable that in many schools the action of the mental faculty as well as of the voice became pure sing-song. Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul For this reason many mathematical problems are required of the pupil; and other lessons are required to develop the mental faculties. The Harp of God His powers, briefly, were, mastery of his body, of his mental faculties, and powers in the spirit realm so lost to us now that we cannot even say definitely what they are. Quiet Talks about Jesus The education of her mental faculties is neglected. True Woman, The A Series of Discourses This difference may perhaps be accounted for by their sequestered manner of living, society contributing much to the exercise of the mental faculties. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 2 There was little cross-examination, though McAllister established Jansen's incomplete recovery of his mental faculties when the men were brought before him. Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts That is to say, the subconscious mental faculties of the person reason out that such-and-so being the case, then it follows that so-and-so will result, unless something entirely unexpected should prevent or intervene. Clairvoyance and Occult Powers |
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