Mind and bodyD. Appleton and Company, 1875 - 196 páginas |
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... muscular action is not merely the exponent of the passion , but truly an essential part of it . If we try , while the features are fixed in the expression of one passion , to call up in the mind a different one , we shall find it ...
... muscular action is not merely the exponent of the passion , but truly an essential part of it . If we try , while the features are fixed in the expression of one passion , to call up in the mind a different one , we shall find it ...
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... muscular strain , there is very little capability of mental effort . Again , there are certain substances , known as stimulants , that are considered to supply the blood with an element specially provocative of nervous change ; as ...
... muscular strain , there is very little capability of mental effort . Again , there are certain substances , known as stimulants , that are considered to supply the blood with an element specially provocative of nervous change ; as ...
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... muscular expenditure . The elephant's brain weighs from 8 to 10 pounds . The whale's brain is said to weigh from 5 to 8 pounds . The brain of one 75 feet long was found to weigh 7 pounds ; Dr. Struthers found the brain of a young whale ...
... muscular expenditure . The elephant's brain weighs from 8 to 10 pounds . The whale's brain is said to weigh from 5 to 8 pounds . The brain of one 75 feet long was found to weigh 7 pounds ; Dr. Struthers found the brain of a young whale ...
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... muscular exertion . It is found that tall men , as a rule , have larger brains than small men . Comparing the increasing size of the brain with the increase in mental power , we are struck with the small- ness of the one increase as ...
... muscular exertion . It is found that tall men , as a rule , have larger brains than small men . Comparing the increasing size of the brain with the increase in mental power , we are struck with the small- ness of the one increase as ...
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... muscular tissue , is a stringy substance made up into separate masses called muscles , of the most various shapes and sizes , but all agreeing in one property , called contractility or forcible shrinking . A muscle has its two ...
... muscular tissue , is a stringy substance made up into separate masses called muscles , of the most various shapes and sizes , but all agreeing in one property , called contractility or forcible shrinking . A muscle has its two ...
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.