Mind and bodyD. Appleton and Company, 1875 - 196 páginas |
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... remarks are designed to answer , may be objected to as purely rhetorical and in some measure unfair . If the matter of the brain were the only substance that mental functions could be attributed to , all the knowledge that we possess of ...
... remarks are designed to answer , may be objected to as purely rhetorical and in some measure unfair . If the matter of the brain were the only substance that mental functions could be attributed to , all the knowledge that we possess of ...
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... remarks of Mr. Darwin are in point : -Most of our emotions [ he should have said all ] are so closely connected with their expression , that they hardly exist if the body remains passive . A man , for instance , may know that his life ...
... remarks of Mr. Darwin are in point : -Most of our emotions [ he should have said all ] are so closely connected with their expression , that they hardly exist if the body remains passive . A man , for instance , may know that his life ...
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... remark that it is a very large and complicated organ ; it receives a copious supply of blood , computed as one - fifth of the entire circu- lation , a circumstance betokening great activity of some kind or other . Now the facts that ...
... remark that it is a very large and complicated organ ; it receives a copious supply of blood , computed as one - fifth of the entire circu- lation , a circumstance betokening great activity of some kind or other . Now the facts that ...
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... remark that a similar pinch upon any part of the skin - hands , arms , legs , back - will induce a similar wave of effects ; so that every portion of the integument of the body has its lines of communication with a very large number of ...
... remark that a similar pinch upon any part of the skin - hands , arms , legs , back - will induce a similar wave of effects ; so that every portion of the integument of the body has its lines of communication with a very large number of ...
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... Remark , next , that the plan of communicating from one part of the body to another , as from the skin of the hand to the muscles of the arm , -is not by a direct route from the one spot to the other , but by a nervous centre . Every ...
... Remark , next , that the plan of communicating from one part of the body to another , as from the skin of the hand to the muscles of the arm , -is not by a direct route from the one spot to the other , but by a nervous centre . Every ...
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.