274 APPENDIX. [No. XVII.A. 



CERTAIN SPECIFIC IDEAS. 

 Life. 



46. The term Life is assigned to the idea which the mind forme of the 

 capacity of an organized being to perform its functions. 



Death. 



47. The term Death is assigned to the idea which the mind receives of 

 an organized being incompetent to perform the vital actions. 



Mind. 



48. The term Mind is assigned to the general idea of any action of the 

 brain, which is a part of the organization of man. An idea is the term 

 assigned to any specific action in the brain. 



Organization. 



49. Organization is the term assigned to the construction of a being 

 to adapt it to perform certain functions. 



Future State. 



50. The mind has constantly represented to it the idea of a personality 

 which will exist infinitely. 



51. Whilst, however, the idea exists, we have no power to learn the 

 properties of infinity ; and hence we cannot define the nature of the state 

 in which we shall live hereafter. 



DISEASED STATES OF MIND. 

 Insane Ideas. 



52. Whenever an idea appears in the brain, which is neither instinc- 

 tive nor is due to external causes, nor is deduced by the ordinary operation 

 of the brain, it is said to be an Insane Idea. 



53. When this idea is continuously the same, the party is said to have 

 a Monomania. 



54. When various images appear and vanish indiscriminately, the state 

 is called Incoherence ; and when this state is combined with more or less 

 unconsciousness, it is termed Delirium. 



55. The danger of insane ideas depends upon the distinctness with 

 which the idea is impressed upon the brain; for it will determine the 

 party to act in proportion to the power with which it is impressed. 



56. To the violent actions arising from strongly implanted diseased 

 ideas, the term MANIA is given; and the violence of the Mania is pro- 

 portionate to the power of the delusion. To the individual it is an 

 exaltation of pleasure. 



57. When, from the delusion, the patient is in continual fear, he is 

 said to be melancholy ; and it is probably, to the individual, an exaltation 

 of pain. 



&S. Whn a fixed insane idea exists in the mind, the party cannot be 



