Truths and their reception, considered in relation to the doctrine of homoeopathy / [By M.B. Sampson] ; to which are added various essays on the principles and statistics of homoeopathic practice.

  • British Homoeopathic Association
Date:
1849
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Credit: Truths and their reception, considered in relation to the doctrine of homoeopathy / [By M.B. Sampson] ; to which are added various essays on the principles and statistics of homoeopathic practice. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    submitted to a person for the first time, and he is required to come to a decision respecting it, it is necessary that all the faculties of the mind should operate upon it; to some of them acquiescence may be distasteful, and to others, again, it may be agree- able. He allows each to act, and at length, by the operation of the intellect, decides as to the course which will upon the whole be most agreeable to him. Having thus made his decision, it is the province of Firmness to impart pleasure in maintaining it. It is obvious that a provision of this kind is necessary, as, • if it were absent, he would at once depart from the course which he had chosen, whenever the slightest momentary temptation was presented for him to do so, and when there wmuld be no time for him to suffer all his faculties to act upon the point, and to let the reason decide upon its aggregate advantages. The organ of firmness, therefore, induces its possessor to persevere steadily in his chosen course. When, however, it is unduly developed, it produces that stiff-neckedness which has been so often de- nounced in the history of the world, and which, unfortunately, is still a predominant characteristic of the human race. It gives, under such circumstances a blind dislike to change of any sort. It stands upon the old ways, merely because they are the old ways, and leads the individual studiously to shun and exclude every light that would render a change of opinion unavoidable. “ Nothing shall ever make me believe this—nothing shall ever make me believe