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Dr. Woodward is documented in Fuller’s published essays (1845). No work is named in the surviving passages, all in The North American Review., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “quoted”.
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 →
“Many insane persons know their condition, know their own weakness, and yet are not always able to counteract the influences that excite them to mischief. They are governed by impulse, which is excited so suddenly, that the counteracting or antagonizing influences do not move seasonably to prevent mischief.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Many insane persons know their condition, know their own weakness, and yet are not always able to counteract the influences that excite them to mischief.”
Fuller, Margaret. "The North American Review." New-York Daily Tribune, 13 January 1845. · 13 January 1845