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Excerpt from Sanity of Mind: A Study of Its Conditions, and of the Means to Its Development and Preservation Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hopes perpetual breath. Wordsworth, Sonnets. A Satisfactory, workable mind, useful to itself and its neighbors, on which one relies as upon a well balanced and solidly mounted machine, is the product of an inconceivably complex series of causes, remote and near. Heredity is perhaps the first thing that occurs to our mind when the cause of its good or bad quality is asked for. The influence of ancestry is a profound problem; and it must be confessed that this influence seems more mysterious, its ramifications more extraordinary and more nearly universal, in proportion to our study of it. Intermingled with inherited traits -there are a hundred accidents and stresses in daily life which put the workmanship of the machinery to the test, and often derange it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.