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intimate and essential sympathy between the brain, as a mental organ, and other organs of the body. The change of character at this period is not by any means limited to the appearance of the sexual feelings , and their sympathetic ideas, hut, when traced to its ultimate reach, will he found to extend to the highest feelings of mankind, social, moral, and even religious.” * He points out the fact that it is very easy by improper training and forced work, during this susceptible period, to turn a physiological into a pathological state. “ The great mental revolution which occurs at puberty may go beyond its physiological limits in some instances, and become pathological.” “ The time of this mental revolution is at best a trying period for youth.” “ The monthly activity of the ovaries, which marks the advent of puberty in women, has a notable effect upon the mind and body; wherefore it may become an important cause of mental and physical derangement.” |
* Body and Mind. By Henry Maudsley, M.D. Lond. p. 31.
t Op. cit., p. 87.