Philosophy and Religion Author:James Hinton Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: m. MENTAL PHYSIOLOGY. Moral and emotional facts stand on the same basis as physical facts— False perceptions are the condition of mental life—Nature is alw... more »ays first misunderstood—There is no method for discovery—The relation of logic to imagination—The place of those who want logic—The significance of paradox—Sleep in mental life—Breathing in mental life—Genius and talent—Talent is nutrition, genius function— Man's mind is female, woman's male—How genius and talent are affected by paradox—Genius is common sense—Mental life arises from failure—Men are parts of a whole—May genius be found common ?—In humanity, as in genius, there is no design—Nutrition and function are the life in thinking—Submission to the thought of others is disease — Saying is seeing — The mental life of humanity. We perceive not only physical facts, but moral, emotional, intellectual facts. These moral facts are as much external to ourselves as the physical; and they nourish, constitute, are food of, our emotional and intellectual life, just as the physical facts are of our scientific life. This is important to observe; because though our entire mental life depends upon observation of physical facts, yet these physical facts are not only physical, they are intellectual, emotional and moral, as much as physical. For instance, when I perceive a person fall in the street, 1 perceive a physical fact illustrating gravity; but I also perceive an emotional fact, a fellow creature injured; a moral fact, a call for my assistance; an intellectual fact, or process of thought and motion. And these emotional,moral, intellectual elements are as truly in the fact I see as the physical ones. I no more create them than the other, indeed perhaps even less; doubtless the physical elements, those which involve space, time...« less