See also:

• PIERRE

PIERRE See also:

• JEAN

JEAN See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

GEORGE See also:

• PIERRE JEAN GEORGE CABANIS (1757-1808)

CABANIS (1757-1808)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French physiologist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Cosnac (See also:

• CORREZE

Correze) on the 5th of See also:

• JUNE

June 1757, and was the son of See also:

• JEAN

Jean See also:

• BAPTISTE

Baptiste See also:

• CABANIS, PIERRE JEAN GEORGE (1757-1808)

Cabanis (1723-1786), a lawyer and agronomist . Sent at the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of ten to the See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

college of Brives, he showed See also:

• GREAT

great aptitude for study, but his See also:

• INDEPENDENCE
• INDEPENDENCE, DECLARATION OF
• INDEPENDENCE, WAR OF

independence of spirit was so excessive that he was almost constantly in a See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state of See also:

• REBELLION

rebellion against his teachers, and was finally dismissed from the school . He was then taken to See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris by his See also:

• FATHER

father and See also:

• LEFT

left to carry on his studies at his own discretion for two years . From 1773 to 1775 he travelled in See also:

• POLAND (Polish Polska, Ger. Polen), (see POLAND, RUSSIAN, below)
• POLAND, RUSSIAN

Poland and See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany, and on his return to Paris he devoted himself mainly to See also:

• POETRY

poetry . About this See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time he ventured to send in to,,,the See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy a See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation of the passage from See also:

• HOMER, WINSLOW (1836-191o)

Homer proposed for their See also:

• PRIZE, or PRIZE OF WAR (Fr. prise, from prendre, to take)

prize, and, though his See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt passed without See also:

• NOTICE

notice, he received so much encouragement from his See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends that he contemplated translating the whole of the Iliad, But at the 914 See also:

• DESIRE

desire of his father he relinquished these pleasant See also:

• LITERARY

literary employments, and resolving to engage in some settled profession selected that of See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine . In 1789 his Observations sur See also:

• LES

les hopitaux procured him an See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment as See also:

• ADMINISTRATOR

administrator of hospitals in Paris, and in 1795 he became See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• HYGIENE (Fr. hygiene, from Gr. ir'taivety, to be healthy)

hygiene at the medical school of Paris, a See also:

• POST

post which he exchanged for the See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair of legal medicine and the See also:

• HISTORY

history of medicine in 1799 . From inclination and from weak See also:

• HEALTH

health he never engaged much in practice as a physician, his interests lying in the deeper problems of medical and physiological See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science . During the last two years of See also:

• MIRABEAU, ANDRE BONIFACE LOUIS RIQUETI, VICOMTE DE (1754-1792)
• MIRABEAU, HONORS GABRIEL RIQUETI, COMTE DE (1749-1791)
• MIRABEAU, VICTOR RIQUETI, MARQUIS DE (1715-1789)

Mirabeau's See also:

• LIFE

life he was intimately connected with that extraordinary See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man, and wrote the four papers on public See also:

• EDUCATION

education which were found among the papers of Mirabeau at his See also:

• DEATH

death, and were edited by the real author soon afterwards in 1791 . During the illness which terminated his life Mirabeau confided himself entirely to the professional skill of Cabanis . Of the progress of the malady, and the circumstances attending the death of Mirabeau, Cabanis See also:

• DREW
• DREW, SAMUEL (1765-1833)

drew up a detailed narrative, intended as a See also:

• JUSTIFICATION

justification of his treatment of the See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case . Cabanis espoused with See also:

• ENTHUSIASM

enthusiasm the cause of the Revolution . He was a member of the See also:

• COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

Council of Five See also:

• HUNDRED

Hundred and then of the Conservative See also:

• SENATE (Lat. senatus, from root sen-, as in senex, old; the root is the Sanskrit sana, cf. Gr. 'vos; the same element appears in senor, seigneur, seneschal)

senate, and the See also:

• DISSOLUTION (from Lat. dissolvere, to break up into parts)

dissolution of the See also:

• DIRECTORY

Directory was the result of a See also:

• MOTION (Lat. motio, from movere, to move)
• MOTION, LAWS OF

motion which he made to that effect .

But his See also:

• POLITICAL

political career was not of See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long continuance . A foe to tyranny in every shape, he was decidedly hostile to the policy of See also:

• BONAPARTE

Bonaparte, and constantly rejected every solicitation to accept a See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place under his See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government . He died at Meulan on the 5th of May 18o8 . A See also:

• COMPLETE

complete edition of Cabanis's See also:

• WORKS

works was begun in 1825, and five volumes were published . His See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

• WORK

work, Rapports du physique et du moral de l'homme, consists in See also:

• PART

part of See also:

• MEMOIRS

memoirs, read in 1796 and 1797 to the See also:

• INSTITUTE (from Lat. instituere, to establish or set up)

Institute, and is a See also:

• SKETCH (directly adapted from Dutch schets, which was taken from Ital. schizzo, a rough draft, Lat. schedium, something hastily made, Gr. oxE&os, sudden, off-hand, axeb6v, near by; Ger. Skizze and Fr. esquisse are from the same source)

sketch of physiological See also:

• PSYCHOLOGY
• PSYCHOLOGY (>Guxrl, the mind or soul, and X yos, theory)

psychology . Psychology is with Cabanis directly linked on to See also:

• BIOLOGY (Gr. Qios, life)

biology, for sensibility, the fundamental fact, is the highest grade of life and the lowest of intelligence . All the intellectual processes are evolved from sensibility, and sensibility itself is a See also:

• PROPERTY

property of the See also:

• NERVOUS

nervous See also:

• SYSTEM

system . The soul is not an entity, but a See also:

• FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty; thought is the See also:

• FUNCTION

function of the See also:

• BRAIN (A.S. braegen)

brain . Just as the See also:

• STOMACH (Gr. vrbsaxos from arbga, a mouth)

stomach and intestines receive See also:

• FOOD
• FOOD (like the verb " to feed," from a Teutonic root, whence O. Eng. foda; cf. " fodder "; connected with Gr. lrareicOae, to feed)

food and See also:

• DIGEST

digest it, so the brain receives impressions, digests them, and has as its organic secretion, thought . Alongside of this harsh See also:

• MATERIALISM (from Lat. materia, matter)

materialism Cabanis held another principle . He belonged in biology to the vitalistic school of G . E .

See also:

• STAHL, FRIEDRICH JULIUS (1802-1861)
• STAHL, GEORG ERNST (1660-1734)

Stahl, and in the See also:

• POSTHUMOUS

posthumous work, Lettre sur les causes premieres (1824), the consequences of this See also:

• OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion became clear . Life is something added to the organism; over and above the universally diffused sensibility there is some living and productive See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power to which we give the name of Nature . But it is impossible to avoid ascribing to this, power both intelligence and will . In us this living power constitutes the ego, which is truly immaterial and immortal . These results Cabanis did not think out of See also:

• HARMONY (Gr. dpµovia, a concord of musical sounds, dpA'ew to join; &plan midi (sc. TeXvil)

harmony with his earlier theory .