Medical testimony and evidence in cases of lunacy; being the Croonian lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians in 1853. With an essay on the conditions of mental soundness.

  • Mayo, Thomas, 1790-1871.
Date:
1854
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    tifies sans Jesus Christ; Dieu sans pouvoir sur les volontes cles homines; une predestination sans mystere; un Eedempteur sans certitude ! ’ Here, by virtue of a note of admiration, the revealed mystery qf the redemption assumes the same character of a priori certainty or intense proba- bility as the proposition, that the Creator can dispose of the wills of the created. Once con- vinced of the importance to himself and others of the belief of that mystery, his mind could not rest satisfied with the evidence of testimony, on which its acceptance really depends. He could not bear that the truth should depend on any proof less strong than demonstration. 6 In a mind,” says M. Villemain, speaking of Pascal,* % ‘ from whose perceptions nothing is hid, the combat with unbelief is the greatest effort of humanity. Pascal himself seems sometimes to sink under it. He is found taking extravagant precautions against the danger; at one time we see him, with astonishment, staking as it were upon a chance the existence of a God and the immortality of the soul, and determining his * ‘ Memoire,’ par M. Villemain.