MANUAL OF THE ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE HUMAN MIND

contemplated-and he resolved to prepare a separate work on the Mind, to which he could afterwards refer. He has not in this volume entered on the consideration of the moral nature or state of man: but if this volume be favourably received, and if it should please God to prolong his life, and spare to him his faculties for some time longer, he may issue another volume, containing his views on these still more important topics.

The author trusts that his only desire is, that he may glorify God, by directing the attention of his fellow-men to His most wonderful work of creation-the immortal spirit of man-and prepare them for the better understanding of His Revealed Word. That his work may effect this object is his prayer and his hope through the kindness of God in Christ Jesus.

CONTENTS.

THE HIGH RANK WHICH THE HUMAN MIND HOLDS IN CREATION

ESSENCE OR SUBSTANCE OF THE MIND ALTOGETHER UNKNOWN

THE MIND HAS NO INNATE IDEAS. ITS FIRST MOVEMENTS

CAUSED BY THE ACTION OF EXTERNAL OBJECTS ON ITS

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SENSATION, AND THE PHENOMENA CONNECTED

WITH IT.

CHAPTER I.

THE SENSES.

Bodily Organs of Sense. Connection with the Brain .

GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE SENSES.

1. Each of the senses yields a variety of sensations

2. Sensations the only means which the mind possesses of

communicating with the external world

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3. Sensations form the elements of all thought

4. Most or all of the classes of sensation, capable of being

excited otherwise than through the organs of sense

5. When different external objects are affecting the organs

of sense at the same time, only one occupies the

thoughts, the rest passing unheeded. This attraction

of the thoughts to one sensation is called attention,

and is not directed by the mind, but by certain

qualities in the sensation that arrests its attention

6. Many, perhaps all, sensations originally pleasant or

painful. The qualities that render them so. The

pleasure and pain fade by repetition, and they become

indifferent

7. None of our sensations nor all of them would of them-

selves convey to the mind any notice of the material

world, or of anything external to the mind itself or

different from it. A mind supposed to be destitute

of all power over the body, and the effects traced.

That the senses give of themselves no notion of

external objects, proved especially in regard to sight

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8. The sensations of themselves could convey no notion of

Sensations so retained in the mind that they may be

recalled, or be again present to the mind. These

recallings of sensations regulated by certain laws

called

Laws of association or suggestion

Difference between original sensations and the recal or

representation of them by memory

Importance of this difference to distinguish truth from

falsehood.

Morbid representations of recal or sensations

Cases mentioned by Abercrombie and others

Sensations are recalled with the pleasure or pain which

originally belonged to them, but modified

Diversities in different minds in their aptitude for

recalling sensations, germs of diversity of character .

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The more frequently sensations are recalled in the same
order, they recal one another with the more certainty
and rapidity in that order

The will has no direct control over the memory
Remembrance of sensations could not give the notion of
cause and effect

The mind expects like consequents to follow like
antecedents

Memory implies the power of observing similarities and

Proofs that the expectation is intuitive

diversities in sensations

In remembered sensations

DISCERNMENT, DISCRIMINATION, OR JUDGMENT AS

DEPENDENT ON SENSATION.

Various kinds of differences and similarities discerned

by sensations of different organs

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Different sensations of same organs

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Long continued from momentary

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The discernment affords a pleasure different from that of

sensation

Pleasure or pain of sensation, and also of discriminating,
the germ of the passions or emotions; the power of
discriminating the germ of intellectual operations
The pain or pleasure of remembered sensations abates
on every successive remembrance
On every repetition of the remembrance of a sensation the
mind becomes more accurate and prompt in discern-
ing its peculiar character

The two elements of sensations take different directions
by repetition, the pain or pleasure subsides, but the
discrimination of them becomes more perfect