Excerpt from Contributions to Mental Pathology<br><br>The contents of this volume, with two exceptions, have already appeared in print. I am induced to put them into a more accessible shape, for the reasons that, since their first appearance, the subjects they discuss have lost none of their original interest; that many of the questions they present are far from being settled; and that the public are seeking for information respect ing a disease that has most important relations to private happiness and social order. In making this select-ion from a much larger number of contributions to the literature of insanity, I have chosen such only as pre sent the disease in those, aspects which have become peculiarly interesting, either from a signal advance in knowledge, 01; some particular circumstance of the time, oré'ome remarkable social, _legal, or aesthetic relation. Though written on different occasions, the reader will find them, Itrust, not. Entirely deficient in that unity of doctrine and purpose which is expected in a systematic treatise. They are given new with scarcely any other alteration than an occasional change.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.