The Physiology of Mind: Being the First Part of a Third Edition, Revised Enlarged and in Great Part Rewritten, of "The Physiology and Pathology of Mind."D. Appleton, 1877 - 547 páginas |
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The Physiology of Mind: Being the First Part of a 3d Ed., Rev., Enl., and in ... Henry Maudsley Visualização integral - 1893 |
The Physiology of Mind: Being the First Part of a 3d Ed., Rev., Enl., and in ... Henry Maudsley Visualização integral - 1883 |
The Physiology of Mind: Being the First Part of a Third Edition, Revised ... Henry Maudsley Visualização integral - 1889 |
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abstract acquired activity adaptation afferent nerve animalcule appear association automatic become blood body brain cause cerebral hemispheres chemical co-ordinate complex conception condition consciousness constitution convolutions convulsions corpora quadrigemina cortical definite Descartes display effect energy epilepsy excited existence experience eyes fact faculty feeling fibres force frog ganglionic cells gradually grey matter higher human idea impressions individual inductive instances instincts irritation kind layers lobes manifest matter means medulla oblongata ment mental function mental phenomena method mind molecular morbid motion motor centres motor nerves movements muscles muscular nerve element nerve-cells nervous centres nervous system ness nutrition object observation organic pain pass perceive perception persons physiological plainly produced psychology reaction reflex action relations result sciousness self-consciousness sensation sense sensibility sensori-motor sensory centres sensory ganglia smell spinal centres spinal cord stimulus structure strychnia substance takes place thought tion tissue uncon unconscious voluntary words
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Página 383 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins: Such harmony is in immortal souls; But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we...
Página 497 - Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Página 526 - Our Place among Infinities: A Series of Essays contrasting our Little Abode in Space and Time with the Infinities Around us.
Página 435 - The motion of our body follows upon the command of our will. Of this we are every moment conscious. But the means, by which this is effected; the energy, by which the will performs so extraordinary an operation; of this we are so far from being immediately conscious, that it must for ever escape our most diligent enquiry.
Página 122 - To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual ; give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding; whence the soul Reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive ; discourse Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours ; Differing but in degree, of kind the same.
Página 121 - O Adam, one Almighty is, from whom 'All things proceed, and up to him return, < If not depraved from good ; created all Such to perfection, one first matter all, Endued with various forms, various degrees Of substance, and, in things that live, of life...
Página 124 - Man having been created after this manner, it is said, as a consequence, that man became a living soul ? whence it may be inferred (unless we had rather take the heathen writers for our teachers respecting the nature of the soul) that man is a living being, intrinsically and properly one and individual, not compound or separable, not, according to the common opinion, made up and framed of two distinct and different natures, as of soul and body, — but that the whole man is soul, and the soul man,...
Página 477 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
Página 436 - ... ere it reach the member itself whose motion is the immediate object of volition. Can there be a more certain proof, that the power, by which this whole operation is performed, so far from being directly and fully known by an inward sentiment or consciousness, is, to the last degree, mysterious and unintelligible?
Página 384 - Sirens' harmony, That sit upon the nine infolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears, And turn the adamantine spindle round On which the fate of gods and men is wound.