. Who is insane? . -turbance of the brain not explained, hence notunderstood, thus reaching a vague and indefi-nite conclusion, skilled and expert anatomistsand physiologists, inspired by the scientificspirit of the age, are gradually unveiling themysteries of the nervous system, which hashitherto remained a sealed book. These con-structive students are thus laying the founda-tions of a true science of psychology in the im-mutable facts of the structure and functions of WHO IS INSANE? 67 the ultimate elements of the brain, the centerand source of all mental activities. Though the mechanism to
. Who is insane? . -turbance of the brain not explained, hence notunderstood, thus reaching a vague and indefi-nite conclusion, skilled and expert anatomistsand physiologists, inspired by the scientificspirit of the age, are gradually unveiling themysteries of the nervous system, which hashitherto remained a sealed book. These con-structive students are thus laying the founda-tions of a true science of psychology in the im-mutable facts of the structure and functions of WHO IS INSANE? 67 the ultimate elements of the brain, the centerand source of all mental activities. Though the mechanism to be analyzed andsynthesized is constituted of the most subtileand elusive elements of the body, and their ar-rangement for the co-ordination of function isthe most complex mechanism known to science,such progress has been made in determiningthe nature of these units of the nervous systemthat it is now possible to understand the archi-tecture of the brain and to correctly interpretits operations. How We Become Insane. How We Become Insane OW did you become insane? Iasked an Irishman who wasamusing a group of inmates ofan asylum. Touching his fore-head with his finger he said,with a grimace, We are allbuilt that way. In those sixwords he embodied all of the knowledge thatscience has discovered in regard to insanity in the centuries past. That We are All short and crisp answer was Built that Way a more luminous statement of the essential fact of insan-ity than is contained in all the books onthat, and the kindred subject of psy-chology, which cumber the shelves of ourpublic Hbraries. The most famous cell-physiol-ogist required a volume to elaborate the sameanswer. Both the man adjudged insane and doomedto the helpless and hopeless life of an asylum,and the learned medical philosopher, expressed 71 72 WHO IS INSANE? the same truths, viz., that in the constitution ofevery human brain there are conditions tendingpowerfully to induce mental states known as in-sanity. The former stated
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