《Tetrabiblos》The Diseases Of The MindClaudius Ptolemy(Ashmand 英譯 1822)
It is by such configurations, as those just described, that any morbid deviation, occurring in the active or reasoning faculties of the mind, is produced; but a deviation of the passive, or merely sensitive faculties, is discernible chiefly in the excess and deficiency (as the case may be) of the masculine and feminine genders; that is to say, in the superabundance, or deficiency, of the power of either gender, to produce a conformation agreeable to its own proper nature: and a knowledge of this latter deviation is to be acquired by means of the following rules.
段落 tetra-3-thedisease-11public-domain (Ashmand 1822)
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