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He was just about to spring into the apartment and tear the paper from Jessie Bain's hands, when he saw her fall lifeless by the couch. Quickly he flung the portières aside and sprang into the apartment. It was but the work of a moment to secure the document, and to thrust it in his vest-pocket.
In this same little book of Bain's this sentence occurs: 'Retention, Acquisition, or Memory, then, being the power of continuing in the mind, impressions that are no longer stimulated by the original agent, and of recalling them at after-times by purely mental forces, I shall remark first on the cerebral seat of those renewed impressions.
The bridge was 'on the great central line of communication from the north of Scotland. The hamlet is right and left of the high road. Bain's Life of James Mill, p. 1. Boswell and Johnson, on their road to Laurence Kirk, must have passed close to the cottage in which he was lying, a baby not five months old. See ante, i. 211.
Hare's book, a review of two other productions on the question of the day; one of them a pamphlet by my early friend, Mr. John Austin, who had in his old age become an enemy to all further Parliamentary reform; the other an able and vigourous, though partially erroneous, work by Mr. Lorimer. Bain's profound treatise on the Mind, just then completed by the publication of its second volume.
Perhaps we cannot better express our sense of its worth, than by saying that, to those who hereafter give to this branch of Psychology a thoroughly scientific organization, Mr. Bain's book will be indispensable. Sir James Macintosh got great credit for the saying, that "constitutions are not made, but grow."
Were we to say that the researches of the naturalist who collects and dissects and describes species, bear the same relation to the researches of the comparative anatomist tracing out the laws of organization, which Mr. Bain's labours bear to the labours of the abstract psychologist, we should be going somewhat too far; for Mr. Bain's work is not wholly descriptive.
But he had drifted into a course of speculation, which, though more germane to legal studies, was equally fatal to professional success. The father despaired, and he was considered to be a 'lost child. Bain's Life of James Mill gives some useful facts as to the later period. There is comparatively little mention of Bentham in contemporary memoirs. Little is said of him in Romilly's Life.
He succeeded beyond all dispute in forcibly presenting one set of views which profoundly influenced his countrymen; and the very narrowness of his intellect enabled him to plant his blows more effectively. The book contains very full materials; and, if rather dry, deals with a dry subject. Wallas's Francis Place, p. 70 n. Bain's James Mill, p. 166. Gifford's real name was John Richards Green.
At a station in Norway the telegraphic apparatus was set fire to; and at Boston, in North America, a flame of fire followed the pen of Bain's electric telegraph, which writes down the message upon chemically prepared paper. Seeing that where the two meteors fell the sun's surface glowed thus intensely, and that the effect of this accession of energy upon our earth was thus well marked, can it be doubted that a comet, bearing in its train a flight of many millions of meteoric masses, and falling directly upon the sun, would produce an accession of light and heat whose consequences would be disastrous?
See M. Napier's Correspondence, pp. 57-59, for the composition. See Bain's James Mill, pp. 374, 415-18. Fragment, pp. 190, 192, 213, 298, 307, 326. Ibid. p. 210. Ethical Philosophy , pp. 188, 193. M. Napier's Correspondence, p. 25. Essay on Sir J. Mackintosh. Essay on Lord Holland. Ibid. p. 85. Ibid. p. 145. Ibid. p. 9. Ibid. p. 120. Ethical Philosophy, pp. 14, 170. Ibid. p. 197. Ibid. p. 248.
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