Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-22

IL means unsoundness or any menta
state that unfits US for any duty. rhi
= dennltion covers the whole ground. Bu
I the whole idea that insanity arises
from Stimulation or Narcotism ia ma
, terlalistic, and makes total depravit,
matter Of deranged secretions anG
organic LESSONS. It utterly ignore,
mans moral nature. The time wi,
come when scientists will teach with
great eclat that man is not dual bu,
, triune being, composed Of q mental
and moral personality joined to ,
material organization upon which as q
stage the other two personalities as
actors fret out their little hour SO rude.
ly that the stage wears out aud breaks
down. The whole drama is one inces
SAINT conflict. The maserialist theory
ignores mans moral nature altogether.
and that is the field in which the de-
rangement, the insanity, exists. The
mutual reflex influence of our physical
mental and moral organizations on
each other is fully and cheerfully adj
mltted. We see Intoxication and
Narcotism sweeping in the whole. but
in which department did they begin?
The terrible experiences of Harvey
Coleridge, De Quincey's Confessions
of an English opium. eater, NJ. Moreau's
Fantasia of Hascheesh, DR.. Ferrer on
the Brain, the able treatises of Hitzip
and Fritsch, all point to the key of the
position in what they in common with
DR.. w. B. Carpenter call want of
will power. That is mistake. It ia
not want but pervision of the will.
The Bible speaking in regard to the
matter now in hand says: "Who hath
sorrow, who hath contentious, VIII,
hath babblings, who hath wounds
without cause, who hath re,lness of
eyes? They that tarry long at tho
wine, they that go to seek mixed wine.
Look not thou upon the wine when i.
is red, when it giveth his color in the
cup, when 1t moveth itself Alright. At
the last it biteth like "a serpent and
stingeth like an adder. Thine ewes
shall behold strange women am. thine
heart shall utter perverse things. Yea
thou shalt be as he that liveth down
in the midst OF the sea or as he that
liveth upon the top of mast. Thev
have stricken me, thou shalt say and I
was not sick; they have beaten me and
felt it not. When shall l awak,? T
will seek it yet again." Could any
language more completely describe
insanity or point more clearly to its
source in Il moral perversion of tie
will?
For long time scientists included
all things ia the animal. vegetale and
mineral kingdoms, but their demon
strations were little more than muster
rolls of technical terms, and their con-
clusions lame and impotent because
they ignored the Imponderables. So
in Physiology and Psychology men
have failed because they have treated
man as duality instead OF a trinity in
which the moral element dominates
the physical through the mental. In
sanity is then moral perversion of the
will, distorting his neutrality-suspicious.
and SO inducing perverted physical ac-
ton. The man is morally insane. and
therefore bee )mes drunk.
1t is customary to talk in this con-
nexion about Heredity. That term is
of the idea that the par
ent communicates the soul as well as
The body of the child. Into this at
present we need not inquire. We have
proceeded on the assumption that the
or narcotism and the i'm
sanity are the immediate acts of the
person himself.
A very interesting aaticle might be
written showing the identity of moral
insanity and demoniacal possession.
Il is difficult to avoid expansion i'm
discussing this subject. But in Physi-
'logy Boiled Down what is wanted ia
he Physiology condensed, and not the
team produced by the process of evap-
ration. Probably the readers of the
HE REGISTER may be ready to cry
ut with the old colored man who,
vhen rambling ta!ker remarked,
from this point wide field opens up"
shouted, "Oh lawd, put up de bahsm
THOMAS CALLAHAN.