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Excerpt from The Infirmities of Genius, Vol. 2 of 2: Illustrated by Referring the Anomalies in the Literary Character to the Habits and Constitutional Peculiarities of Men of Genius
Cullen's idea of mania is, that its leading character is a false judgment of the relations of things, producing disproportionate emotions.
Dr. Pritchard's opinion is applicable to a wider range of mental derangements. The con founding the results of memory and imagination, and mistaking the reveries of the latter for the re?ections of the former these he considers the distinguishing feature of madness.
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