 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1879 - 230 pages
...materials of consciousness are products of cerebral activity. Cabania may have made use of crude n.nd misleading phraseology when he said that the brain...liver secretes bile ; but the conception which that much abused phrase embodies is, nevertheless, far more consistent with fact than the popular notion... | |
 | Constance Caroline W. Naden - 1883 - 92 pages
...superiority of the second consists solely in its simplicity and convenience. It has been previously hinted1 that no adherents of the third doctrine now exist,...seated in the head, but as independent of the brain as the telegraph operator is of his instrument.'2 In the concluding article of the present volume, on... | |
 | 1888 - 492 pages
..." are functions of the brain, and the materials of consciousness are products of cerebral activity. Cabanis may have made use of crude and misleading...embodies is, nevertheless, far more consistent with the fact than the popular notion that the mind is a metaphysical entity, seated in the head, but as... | |
 | 1883 - 836 pages
...mind are functions of the brain, and the materials of consciousness are products of cerebral activity. Cabanis may have made use of crude and misleading...phrase embodies is, nevertheless, far more consistent wkh fact than the popular notion that the mind is a metaphysical entity seated in the head, but as... | |
 | Lyman Abbott - 1886 - 206 pages
..."are functions of the brain, and the materials of consciousness are products of cerebral activity. Cabanis may have made use of crude and misleading...embodies is, nevertheless, far more consistent with the fact than the popular notion that the mind is a metaphysical entity, seated in the head, but as... | |
 | Lyman Abbott - 1889 - 328 pages
..." are functions of the brain, and the materials of consciousness are products of cerebral activity. Cabanis may have made use of crude and misleading...embodies is, nevertheless, far more consistent with the fact than the popular notion that the mind is a metaphysical entity, seated in the head, but as... | |
 | Lyman Abbott - 1889 - 328 pages
..." are functions of the brain, and the materials of consciousness are products of cerebral activity. Cabanis may have made use of crude and misleading...liver secretes bile. But the conception which that much -abused phrase embodies is, nevertheless, far more consistent with the fact than the popular notion... | |
 | Joseph Henry Wythe - 1889 - 350 pages
...in the case of thought and desire. The uses of some bodily organs, also, are yet unknown. Some have said that the brain secretes thought as the liver secretes bile ; but if this could be proved it would not establish the materiality of mind, since all secretion requires... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1896 - 346 pages
...mind are functions of the brain, and the materials of consciousness are products of cerebral activity. Cabanis may have made use of crude and misleading...that the brain secretes thought as the liver secretes b»le; but the conception which that much-abused phrase embodies is, nevertheless, far more consistent... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1901 - 222 pages
...mind are functions of the brain, and the materials of consciousness are products of cerebral activity. Cabanis may have made use of crude and misleading...consistent with fact than the popular notion that the inind is a metaphysical entity seated in the head, but as independent of the brain as a telegraph operator... | |
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Surely no one who is cognisant of the facts of the case, nowadays, doubts that the roots of psychology lie in the physiology of the nervous system. What we call the operations of the mind are functions of the brain, and the materials of consciousness... 
