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...religion and Irish insanity’ in J. Melling and B. Forsythe (eds) Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800–1914: A Social History of Madness in Comparative Perspective, London: Routledge, pp.223–42. Walton, J.K. (1981) ‘The treatment of pauper lunatics in Victorian England: the case of Lancaster Asylum, 1816–1870’ in A.T. Scull (ed.) Madhouses, Mad-Doctors and...

...religion, angels exist and have minds of some kind, as does God, if He exists. What is the mind of an angelic being like? It depends, first of all, on whether angelic beings have material bodies, for we need to know whether they have any sense organs. Opinions about this differ in much the same way as opinions about the nature of the soul differ. Consider, for a moment,...

...La Gioconda), who is believed to have been the wife of a wealthy Florentine, Francesco del Giocondo. It is a painting which is striking in its realism, as though she is a living being and we are absorbed by the mysterious nature of her expression. In the Mona Lisa Leonardo superbly demonstrated his understanding of the way the human eyes move and the way in which we see...