THE GOSLING CASE

As Illustrating and Enforcing Some of the Important Positions of the Essay on the Problems of Insanity Ii, in the future, as in the past, insanity is to be a measure of our civilization{ if every increase in the illuminating power of the mind is but an increase of surface to be eclipsed, if each fresh discovery or invention is to be matched by some new diseases of the nerves if insanity and its retinue of neuroses, through the cruel law of in heritance, are to be organized in families, descending in fiery streams through the generations, we have this assurance