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390 INSANITY, PAST AND PBESENT.
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> in countries _England ; and . A recap strict itulating similarity 1 what exists has been between advanced this we and find other that _,
, the causes of insanity may be divided into two classes , physical and moralboth amenable to certain laws and predisposing influences ,
, andconsequently , both susceptible of preventive as well as cura-, tive measures .
Throughout these remarks we have also brought into prominent li aware ght the that greater this question liability of of women peculiar to tendency insanity among than men women . We is are a
_dispiited one , and probably more apparent than real ; but we may observe that , with the exception of certain ailments to
which women are constitutionally liable , the cause of this predisposition to mental derangement is to be found not in their
p cant hysical minds organization unsettled , characters but in the indefinite want of occupations true education , all , the
va-, , aimless anxieties of flippant , unstable dispositions—these are the fruitful sources of misery and wretchednessself-imposed sorrows
and self-inflicted chastisements . For as we are , accountable to our Maker for the use or abuse of the talents He has lent unto us , so
when by our own wilful folly we render worse than useless the greatest of His ifts-- —the mindand by culpable neglect allow
us consciousness so that the , the remainder hi g ghest prerogative of our , existence of human nature ear , to th die differs within in upon
nothing destroye , d from ourselves the brute just , as we mu have ch , as in if the we had strictest , lifted sense our hand of the against word ,
our lifeand had treated , as worthlessthat which it was our duty to guard , , with the utmost solicitude . When , consciousness ceases ,
responsibility ceases ; the lunatic is not accounable for his acts and such words answerable ; but previous to Heaven to the seizure for the he occupation was a reasonable of those being talents , and with as
which he was entrusted . The day of his death will be reckoned that on which his mind died within himnot that on which merely
his physical frame returns to the dust , whence it was taken . This is a solemn thoughtyet what comfort it brings to relatives ,
who perchance witness the , delirious ravings of those whom they love as their own soulbut whose career previous to the seizure has
, been all that is pure and holy . . Butbearing in mind the avowed purpose of these observations ,
as we , have spoken of the past , we . must now return to statistics , we and gave glance in at some the presen detail _E the state Official of insanity Lunacy amongst Returns us . made Last b month y and the
three most civilized nations of the world , Great Britain , France , America . The aggregate number of the insane , and their relative proportion to the estimated population of these several countries ,
would be as follows : —
390 Insanity, Past And Pbesent.
390 INSANITY , PAST AND PBESENT .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1861, page 390, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021861/page/30/
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