The Physiology and Pathology of the MindAppleton, 1872 - 442 pages |
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acquired acute afferent nerve animal appear attack automatic become blood bodily body brain cause cerebral hemispheres character child co-ordinate complex conception condition connexion consciousness consequence constitution convolutions convulsions corpora quadrigemina definite degeneration delusion dementia derangement disease disorder display effect emotion energy epilepsy excited exhibited existence experience external nature fact faculty feeling force function ganglionic cells give rise gradually hallucinations human idea ideational idiots impressions impulse incoherent individual innate insanity instinct irritation J. S. Mill kind less mania manifest matter medulla oblongata melancholia ment mental activity metaphysical mind monomania moral morbid morbid action motor intuition movements muscles muscular nerve nerve-cell nervous centres nervous element nervous system nutrition observation organic element painful paralysis particular passion patient physiology plainly produced reaction reflex action relations residua result sensation sense sensibility sensory ganglia sometimes spinal centres spinal cord stimulus symptoms takes place things thought tion unconscious volition
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Page 278 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Page 161 - 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.
Page 62 - 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...
Page 181 - 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.
Page 278 - Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world; we bring impurity much rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That...
Page 62 - 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.
Page 69 - If an act became no easier after being done several times, if the careful direction of consciousness were necessary to its accomplishment on each occasion, it is evident that the whole activity of a lifetime might be confined to one or two deeds— that no progress could take place in development.
Page 141 - For every man is desirous of what is good for him, and shuns what is evil, but chiefly the chiefest of natural evils, which is death : and this he doth by a certain impulsion of nature, no less than that whereby a stone moves downward.
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