Our mind in some strange way acts on our nerves, and our nerves in some equally strange way store up the consequences, and somehow the result, as a rule and commonly enough, goes down to our descendants; these primitive facts all theories admit, and all of them labour to explain.
He reflects on the mysterious ways in which our minds and nerves interact and influence future generations.
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Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
In early society, originality in life was forbidden and repressed by the fixed rule of life.
The nation then selected the English policy, but the Crown chose the English Ministers.
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