Mind and bodyD. Appleton and Company, 1875 - 196 páginas |
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... fibres and nerve cells ? The question , whatever may be insinuated in putting it , is highly relevant , and raises great issues . The conceivable answers are various : - First . Granting mind and body to be in our present life ...
... fibres and nerve cells ? The question , whatever may be insinuated in putting it , is highly relevant , and raises great issues . The conceivable answers are various : - First . Granting mind and body to be in our present life ...
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... - acts upon them . Using all this knowledge as a key , we may possibly unlock the secrets of the anatomical structure ; we may compel the cells and fibres to disclose their meaning and purpose . CHAPTER II . CONNEXION OF MIND AND BODY .
... - acts upon them . Using all this knowledge as a key , we may possibly unlock the secrets of the anatomical structure ; we may compel the cells and fibres to disclose their meaning and purpose . CHAPTER II . CONNEXION OF MIND AND BODY .
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... fibres or very minute threads , every visible nerve being a bundle of these . The Grey matter is a mixture of these fibres with a distinct class of bodies , called cells , vesicles , or corpuscles - small solid bodies , round , pear ...
... fibres or very minute threads , every visible nerve being a bundle of these . The Grey matter is a mixture of these fibres with a distinct class of bodies , called cells , vesicles , or corpuscles - small solid bodies , round , pear ...
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... fibres in individual nerves . The third cerebral nerve ( the common motor of the eye ) is supposed to have as many as fifteen thousand fibres . In the sensory nerves the fibres are smaller ; and in the large nerve of sight , the optic ...
... fibres in individual nerves . The third cerebral nerve ( the common motor of the eye ) is supposed to have as many as fifteen thousand fibres . In the sensory nerves the fibres are smaller ; and in the large nerve of sight , the optic ...
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... fibres proceed from the nerve - centres to the extremities of the body without a break , and without FIG . 1. * d uniting or fusing with one another ; so that each unfail- ingly delivers its separate message . Without this , the ...
... fibres proceed from the nerve - centres to the extremities of the body without a break , and without FIG . 1. * d uniting or fusing with one another ; so that each unfail- ingly delivers its separate message . Without this , the ...
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
Passagens conhecidas
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.