Mind and bodyD. Appleton and Company, 1875 - 196 páginas |
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... connecting pleasure with a repast , a concert , or a holiday ; but the mention of nerve currents gives no information of a practical kind , and does not add to our knowledge of the laws of pleasure . Fourthly . While allowing it to be ...
... connecting pleasure with a repast , a concert , or a holiday ; but the mention of nerve currents gives no information of a practical kind , and does not add to our knowledge of the laws of pleasure . Fourthly . While allowing it to be ...
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... connected with their expression , that they hardly exist if the body remains passive . A man , for instance , may know that his life is in the extremest peril , and may strongly desire to save it ; yet , as Louis XVI . said , when ...
... connected with their expression , that they hardly exist if the body remains passive . A man , for instance , may know that his life is in the extremest peril , and may strongly desire to save it ; yet , as Louis XVI . said , when ...
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... connecting each movement with the one that regularly follows it . It is needless , at this stage , to probe deeper that system of complicated intercommunication between sense organs and moving organs , and between one set of moving ...
... connecting each movement with the one that regularly follows it . It is needless , at this stage , to probe deeper that system of complicated intercommunication between sense organs and moving organs , and between one set of moving ...
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... connection with the brain . Now , when any derangement operates upon the brain , directly or indirectly , the physician looks for definite corresponding mental symptoms . The state of the mind is dictated by the state of the brain . As ...
... connection with the brain . Now , when any derangement operates upon the brain , directly or indirectly , the physician looks for definite corresponding mental symptoms . The state of the mind is dictated by the state of the brain . As ...
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... connection with the law of Relativity or Change of Impression ; but it does not amount to the full significance of ... connected with the degree of disturbance of the nervous currents , whether it be the quickening of the nerves from a ...
... connection with the law of Relativity or Change of Impression ; but it does not amount to the full significance of ... connected with the degree of disturbance of the nervous currents , whether it be the quickening of the nerves from a ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
acquisitions activity acute æther ALEXANDER BAIN animal Aquinas argument Aristotle Augustine blood brain called cause cells centres cerebral colour condition connected connexion of mind consciousness corporeal corpuscles corresponding currents definite degree Deity Descartes diffused distinct doctrine effect embodiment emotions energy excitement existence expression extended extended consciousness farther feeling fibres force Form functions grey grey matter groupings human ideas immaterial immortal impression influence Intellect intensity knowledge Mamertus manifestations material matter memory ment mental fact mind and body mode motion movements moving organs muscles muscular mystery nature Neo-Platonism nerve-cells nerves nervous action nervous system nexion nutritive object operations peculiar philosopher physical Pleasure and Pain Plotinus present principle principle of Relativity properties pure R. A. PROCTOR reflex actions regards remark sensation sense sentient separate SHELDON AMOS shock skin soul spirit stimulation substance suppose things THOMAS AQUINAS thought tion transition union viscera vital power WALTER BAGEHOT whole
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Página 196 - Bain's own theory of the connection between the mental and the bodily part in man is stated by himself to be as follows : There is ' one substance, with two sets of properties, two sides, the physical and the mental — a double-faced unity.
Página 131 - From the ingress of a sensation to the outgoing responses in action, the mental succession is not for an instant dissevered from a physical succession.
Página 137 - Asserting the union in the strongest manner, we must yet deprive it of the almost "invincible association of union in place. An extended organism is the condition of our passing into a state where there is no extension. A human being is an extended and material thing, attached to which is the power of becoming alive to feeling and thought, the extreme remove from all that is material ; a condition of trance wherein, while it lasts, the material drops out of view — so much so, that we have not the...
Página 91 - For every act of memory, every exercise of bodily aptitude, every habit, recollection, train of ideas, there is a specific grouping or co-ordination of sensations and movements, by virtue of specific growths in the cell functions.
Página 185 - It is a point which seems to me to be put out of the reach of our knowledge: and he who will give himself leave to consider freely, and look into the dark and intricate part of each hypothesis, will scarce find his reason able to determine him fixedly for or against the soul's materiality.