Psychological inquiries: in a series of essays [signed B.C.B.]. |
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Psychological Inquiries: In a Series of Essays Signed B. C. B. Benjamin Collins Brodie (1st Bart ) Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2020 |
Psychological Inquiries: In a Series of Essays Signed B.C.B. Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1st Bart ) Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2019 |
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actual Additional Note admit affect afterwards animals attention Aveyron awake believe belonging blood bodily body brain causes cerebellum cerebral hemispheres cerebrum cervelet character circumstances conclusion connected convolutions corpus callosum CRITES degree disease doubt dreams Dugald Stewart ERGATES especially EUBULUS example exercise existence experience explained external facts feelings former functions George Combe gray substance greater habits head human nature illusions imagination imperfect impressions individual influence inquiries insensibility instances instincts intellectual intelligence kind knowledge labour le cerveau less living matter means medulla oblongata medullary substance memory mental faculties mental principle merely mind muscles nerves nervous force nervous system objects observations occasion opinion organs of sense otherwise peculiar perception perfect persons philosopher phrenology physical organization physiologists present probable produced reason recollection refer regard seems sensations sensibility Sir Walter Scott sleep speech spinal chord structure sufficient suppose things thought tion volition
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Pagina 30 - EUBULUS. In accordance with your view of the matter, Sir Walter Scott has somewhere observed, that " the best part of every man's education is that which he gives himself;" and I willingly admit that, among those whose intellect is of the higher order, there are many who would ultimately accomplish greater things
Pagina 256 - contrived, from the beach, and the quay, and the fisher's boat, and the inn's fireside, and the tradesman's shop, and the shepherd's walk, and the smuggler's hut, and the mossy moor, and the screaming gulls, and the restless waves, to fashion for himself a philosophy and poetry of his own!
Pagina 31 - and inventions than is the case among the more highly educated classes of the community.* Ferguson, the astronomer and mechanical philosopher, told Dugald Stewart that " he had more than once attempted to study the ' Elements of Euclid,
Pagina 129 - I have been informed of some other cases in which the same thing happened, and all this must have been in the brief space of a very few minutes. But I have also been informed of other instances of individuals whose minds had been affected very much in the same way when they were suddenly
Pagina 210 - belonging to man resemble those of the inferior animals, inasmuch as they relate to the preservation of the individual and the continuation of the species. To these the social instinct is superadded, not indeed, peculiar to man, but in him attaining a greater degree of development than in other creatures. This may be
Pagina 85 - apparition afterwards! It is probable that when Swedenborg supposed that he met Moses or Elias in the street, some such object was really presented to his mind; and that even Joanna Southcote, and others who have been regarded as a low order of impostors, were not altogether impostors, but in part the victims of their own
Pagina 57 - of the accident. But in some instances the effect of a blow on the head is merely to disturb the " memory, the other functions being unimpaired. A groom in the service of the Prince Regent was cleaning
Pagina 41 - ERGATES. I entirely agree with you in the opinion that we must admit the existence of the Deity as a fact as well established as that of the law of gravitation, and that in doing so we must further admit that mind may and does exist, independently of bodily organization. Be it also
Pagina 149 - tortoise, whose existence is prolonged for one or two centuries ; and that there is a similar difference, though in a less degree, between the life of the enterprising man, whose progress is crowded with events, and with alternate hopes and fears, and that of another who, with more limited desires, keeps
Pagina 63 - brain, from thence to the nerves, and from these to other organs, and producing a marked change in the condition of the latter; and, a priori, there is no reason to doubt that the operation of a similar cause may produce an equal change, though of another kind, and more