My battle for life. The autobiography of a phrenologist (1857)
Goyder, David George, 1796-1878 · London, Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. · leaf 518
powers to a comparatively small number of kinds, andthis merely to supply themselves with nourishment.—Moreover, in man, this propensity offers different degreesof activity, from a mere indifference to destruction,to pleasure in seeing animals killed, and even to thegreatest desire to kill. The… … me Idiots, and the insane, sometimes feel an irresistibledesire to destroy all they lay their hands on. Some ofthe insane thus affected manifest the strongest aversionto the deeds they would do, and even thank those whocoerce and keep them from mischief. The primary nature of this propensity is a…
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