Mind and bodyD. Appleton and Company, 1875 - 196 páginas |
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... hand , happy outward circumstances are favourable to health and longevity . In the personifications so common in our early poetry the various passions are described by the marks that their long dominance leaves on the bodily figure . In ...
... hand , happy outward circumstances are favourable to health and longevity . In the personifications so common in our early poetry the various passions are described by the marks that their long dominance leaves on the bodily figure . In ...
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... hands consumed to the bone . In considering minutely the evidences of the connexion of mind and body , we gradually perceive that the organ most intimately associated with mind is the BRAIN . Other organs have been assigned , at various ...
... hands consumed to the bone . In considering minutely the evidences of the connexion of mind and body , we gradually perceive that the organ most intimately associated with mind is the BRAIN . Other organs have been assigned , at various ...
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... hand , when the cerebral circulation is quickened , the feelings are roused , the thoughts are more rapid , the volitions more vehement ; great mental exciternent is always accompanied with an unusual flow of blood , often outwardly ...
... hand , when the cerebral circulation is quickened , the feelings are roused , the thoughts are more rapid , the volitions more vehement ; great mental exciternent is always accompanied with an unusual flow of blood , often outwardly ...
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... hand need a corre- sponding number of muscles . There are between four and five hundred muscles in the human body . We must next consider the mutual relationship of these two sets of organs , Sense Organs and Moving Organs . Something ...
... hand need a corre- sponding number of muscles . There are between four and five hundred muscles in the human body . We must next consider the mutual relationship of these two sets of organs , Sense Organs and Moving Organs . Something ...
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... hand and the group of muscles in the shoulder , upper arm , and forearm , that unite to withdraw the hand . Assuming the concurrence of ten muscles , there must be a ramifying thread of communication from any point in the skin of the hand ...
... hand and the group of muscles in the shoulder , upper arm , and forearm , that unite to withdraw the hand . Assuming the concurrence of ten muscles , there must be a ramifying thread of communication from any point in the skin of the hand ...
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.