The various theories of the relation of mind and brain reviewedTrubner & Company, 1869 - 106 |
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... already observed , three schools of physiologists , each of which would yield a different answer from the others . These schools are - first , the Materialistic , which asserts that the brain is the mind ; the second , the popular ...
... already observed , three schools of physiologists , each of which would yield a different answer from the others . These schools are - first , the Materialistic , which asserts that the brain is the mind ; the second , the popular ...
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... already made : he asserts that the quality of the mind is evinced by the amount of the grey matter of the brain . This assertion has likewise been disproved by an elaborate series of mea- surements conducted by M. Baillarger . Having ...
... already made : he asserts that the quality of the mind is evinced by the amount of the grey matter of the brain . This assertion has likewise been disproved by an elaborate series of mea- surements conducted by M. Baillarger . Having ...
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... already formed . Again , with regard to the case of the seaman , I assert that circumstances might have occurred in his after life which would have brought to his recollection the various thoughts and feelings which transpired during ...
... already formed . Again , with regard to the case of the seaman , I assert that circumstances might have occurred in his after life which would have brought to his recollection the various thoughts and feelings which transpired during ...
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... already given apply with equal force here . But the second school has a much wider range of observation and argument than the first . The mate- rialist cannot conceive of the immortality of the soul , while the second school of ...
... already given apply with equal force here . But the second school has a much wider range of observation and argument than the first . The mate- rialist cannot conceive of the immortality of the soul , while the second school of ...
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... already said ) so many folds in a piece of velvet . They are not separate- they are not different : they are identical . Why , then , can we suppose that they are the organs of very different functions ? We do not imagine that one lobe ...
... already said ) so many folds in a piece of velvet . They are not separate- they are not different : they are identical . Why , then , can we suppose that they are the organs of very different functions ? We do not imagine that one lobe ...
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Strona 65 - The internal anguish of her mind was, however, at its utmost height when the funeral hymns began to be sung, and when the lid of the coffin was about to be nailed on. The thought that she was to be buried alive was the first one which gave activity to her soul, and caused it to operate on her corporeal frame.
Strona 54 - ... A clergyman had come to this city from a short distance in the country, and was sleeping at an inn, when he dreamed of seeing a fire, and one of his children in the midst of it. He awoke with the impression, and instantly left town on his return home. When he arrived within sight of his house, he found it on fire, and got there in time to assist in saving one of his children who, in the alarm and confusion, had been left in a situation of danger.
Strona 52 - He then seated himself at his secretoire to write, when, happening to look up a long avenue of trees opposite the window, he perceived a man in a blue jacket, mounted on a white horse, coming towards the house.
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Strona 56 - ... by her brother, while the other was writing a note in the adjoining room. When her note was ready for being sealed, she was proceeding to take out, for this purpose, the watch alluded to, which had been put by in her writing-desk ; — she was astonished to find it had stopped. At the same instant she heard a scream of intense distress from her sister in the other room, — their brother, who had still been considered as going on favourably, had been seized with a sudden fit of suffocation, and...
Strona 53 - Of all the truths we know," says Mr. Stewart, " the existence of mind is the most certain. Even the system of Berkeley concerning the non-existence of matter is far more conceivable than that nothing but matter exists in the universe.
Strona 63 - However astonishing, it is now proved beyond all rational doubt, that in certain abnormal states of the nervous organism, perceptions are possible through other than the ordinary channels of the senses.
Strona 47 - The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point. The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Strona 57 - ... tried in vain: they only aggravated her distress, and made the bitterness of despair more poignant. In a surprisingly short period, her graceful form declined into all the appalling characteristics of a fatal illness ; and she seemed rapidly hastening to the grave, when a dream confirmed the horrors she had long anticipated, and gave the finishing stroke to her sorrows. One night, after felling asleep, she imagined she saw her lover, pale, bloody, and wounded in the breast, enter her apartment.