Life: its relations, animal and mentalSteam Power-Press of Walker, Evans, & Company, 1857 - 58 стор. |
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absolute Aristotle asserted become belief body brain capacity cephalic ganglia cerebral cerebral hemispheres cerebrum cesses changes character classes cognizance complexity conducted connection consciousness cord correspondence degree depend Descartes determine direct Divine effect efferent nerves ence endowed evanescent excited exhibited existence experience external fact faculties feeble force originally immanent former functions ganglion glia higher human hypothesis ideas identity impressions individual inferior animals innate ideas instances instrument intel intellectual intelligence latter Leibnitz lower orders Lucretius manner means mediately ment mental metaphysical mind mode modus operandi nature nerve vesicles nervous structure object observed occur organic Pantheism Paracelsus perfect phenomena philosophy physiology polype possible predicable present principle processes progressional development psychical psychology race rational ratus reason reflex action relation result Saïs segment sensational sense perceptions sensorium separate speculations stimuli successive teleological termed instinctive thought tion traced true truth unconscious unity vesicular neurine virtue Διὸς
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Сторінка 54 - A mob of cobblers, and a court of kings: Light fumes are merry, grosser fumes are sad: Both are the reasonable soul run mad: And many monstrous forms in sleep we see, That neither were, nor are, nor e'er can be. Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind, Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind. The nurse's legends are for truths received, And the man dreams but what the boy believed.
Сторінка 17 - Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new : That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do...
Сторінка 37 - And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the Soul of each, and God of all?
Сторінка 57 - Psychical changes either conform to law or they do not. If they do not conform to law, this work, in common with all works on the subject, is sheer nonsense : no science of Psychology is possible. If they do conform to law, there cannot be any such thing as free will.
Сторінка 10 - is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.
Сторінка 34 - Gardner threw a small shell into its hole, others remaining within a few inches of it. In about five minutes the crab brought up the shell, and carried it to a distance of about a foot from its burrow. Seeing the others lying near the mouth of the hole, it immediately carried them one by one to the place where it placed the first, and then returned to its labour.
Сторінка 16 - So far from philosophy being a forbidden domain to the physiologist, it may be asserted that the time has now come when no one is entitled to express an opinion in philosophy, except he has first studied physiology.
Сторінка 29 - We shall find that, in the higher classes, the inequality in the formation and office of the different segments, and the increased powers of special sensation, involve a considerable change in the nervous system, which is concentrated about the head and thorax.
Сторінка 30 - For the lower reflex operations, on the other hand, the ganglia of the ventral cord are sufficient; each one ministering to the actions of its own segment, and, to a certain extent also, to those of other segments.
Сторінка 17 - The man whom we love lies there: but glorious, worthy; and his spirit yet lives in us with an authentic life. Could each here vow to do his little task, even as the Departed did his great one; in the manner of a true man, not for a Day, but for Eternity! To live, as he counselled and commanded, not commodiously in the Reputable, the Plausible, the Half, but resolutely in the Whole, the Good, the True : ' Im Ganzen, Guten, Wahren resolut zu leben...