This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...107 In the lowest of these inferior beings, I have always found traces of a propensity whose satisfaction, or even approach to satisfaction, gives pleasure. One must look early for that door ajar, or crevice, in an existence immured on all other sides. Thus it is not infrequent to use a peculiar taste, even a vicious ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...107 In the lowest of these inferior beings, I have always found traces of a propensity whose satisfaction, or even approach to satisfaction, gives pleasure. One must look early for that door ajar, or crevice, in an existence immured on all other sides. Thus it is not infrequent to use a peculiar taste, even a vicious one (like those developed in Malacia), as a bait, directly to develop a better taste or appetence, or indirectly to induce operations of another order. In a different direction, one of the irresistible automatisms of the hand, instead of being opposed to a long while, even forever in vain, is taken hold of and directed toward a useful occupation, a mode of training more or less germane or correlated to the said automatism. The education of B.... furnished a fine specimen of this kind of entra'mement from, and by an automatism which caused him great pleasure and verged on vice in its crude state. He was very fond of caressing things or persons with a feathery touch as described in the XXIX. obs. of Idiocy, page 376, (from which B.... differs in all other respects). This propensity was made the starting point of a series of tactile drills in which his touch was exercised to become an intellectual fact in reference to the form of objects hidden from sight and perceived by the hand only, and to the material of other objects whose feel was the only means of identification and recognition. To carry on this latter plan, Miss M.... put in a covered basket several objects of contrasting form relative to the typical forms as far as B.... knew them at different times. Oftener the objects would be chosen for their difference of tissue, as velvet, flannel, muslin, gauze, kid, &c.; others for their difference of surface only, as polished marble, stone, i...
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