Mind and bodyD. Appleton and Company, 1875 - 196 páginas |
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... human feelings . The sun and the moon , the winds and the rivers , are less engaging when viewed as mere physical agencies , than when they are supposed to operate by human motives and purposes , loves and hates . The interest of the human ...
... human feelings . The sun and the moon , the winds and the rivers , are less engaging when viewed as mere physical agencies , than when they are supposed to operate by human motives and purposes , loves and hates . The interest of the human ...
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... human emotions , have their marked and inseparable attitude and deportment . In the artistic conceptions of the Middle Ages , more especially , the most divine attributes of the immaterial soul had their counterpart in the material body ...
... human emotions , have their marked and inseparable attitude and deportment . In the artistic conceptions of the Middle Ages , more especially , the most divine attributes of the immaterial soul had their counterpart in the material body ...
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... human beings . The large heads of men distinguished for high intellectual endowments , or for great energy of character in other ways , have been contrasted with the small heads of idiots . The rule is not strictly maintained in every ...
... human beings . The large heads of men distinguished for high intellectual endowments , or for great energy of character in other ways , have been contrasted with the small heads of idiots . The rule is not strictly maintained in every ...
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... human beings , but in the elephant tribe , and after them the whales , whose ponderous bodies demand an enormous muscular expenditure . The elephant's brain weighs from 8 to 10 pounds . The whale's brain is said to weigh from 5 to 8 ...
... human beings , but in the elephant tribe , and after them the whales , whose ponderous bodies demand an enormous muscular expenditure . The elephant's brain weighs from 8 to 10 pounds . The whale's brain is said to weigh from 5 to 8 ...
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... human brain is 48 oz .; the brains of extra- ordinary men seldom reach Cuvier's figure , 64 oz . Now the intellectual force of the ordinary man is surpassed by Cuvier in a far higher ratio than this . Taking the mere memory , which is ...
... human brain is 48 oz .; the brains of extra- ordinary men seldom reach Cuvier's figure , 64 oz . Now the intellectual force of the ordinary man is surpassed by Cuvier in a far higher ratio than this . Taking the mere memory , which is ...
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.