Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis(1757–1808)

Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis is documented in Fuller’s journals. One work is named, all in Journal Fragments, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

In Fuller’s words

“Cabanis remarks that “Sensibility / may be compared to a fluid / the total quantity of which / is determined and which / wherever it flows more / abundantly in any one channel / is proportionably diminished / in the others.”
Rapports du physique et du moral de l'homme [On the Relations between the Physical and Moral Aspects of Man] · Journal Fragments

When Fuller engaged with Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis

No datable encounters with Cabanis, Pierre Jean Georges have been catalogued yet.

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Cabanis in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

Undated

Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

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Journal Fragments

p. 81
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“Cabanis remarks that “Sensibility / may be compared to a fluid / the total quantity of which / is determined and which / wherever it flows more / abundantly in any one channel / is proportionably diminished / in the others.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal Fragments." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inferred Fuller attributes the remark explicitly to ‘Cabanis.’ The quoted passage matches the kind of physiological metaphor characteristic of Cabanis’s Rapports du physique et du moral de l’homme (On the Relations between the Physical and Moral Aspects of Man, 1802), in which he argues that the nervous system and sensibility are distributed across the body in such a way that heightened function in one region diminishes it in others.