Sentence:  ... St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's <WSD>mind</WSD> and left only a dull oppression of the spirit. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.