The Human Body and Its Functions; A Second Course of Lectures Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Young Men's Christian Association January--March, 1 - Tapa blanda
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1880 Excerpt: ... VI. THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. YOU are all familiar with the old story of the shield composed of two materials. The knights approached it from different directions; one of them saw a golden shield, and the other saw a silver shield. They disputed as to the structure of this piece of armour, and, as the story goes, they at length came to blows. We are told that they might have settled their dispute very readily, if each one had passed round to the point of view occupied by the other. It is sometimes said that disputes between philosophers and physiologists are of this kind. We look at the subject from two different stand-points, and if we changed our mode of examination we should be likely to arrive at an ultimate complete agreement. Nowadays, we are told something more. It is maintained that just as that shield had two sides, so has nervous matter, or, indeed, matter of any kind. It is asserted that nervous matter has two sides--an upper and an under, a mental side and a material side. We are told not only that matter has in itself the potency of life, but the potency 'of all life, and that intelligence and will are as much properties of matter as growth and development. In this lecture I have to speak of this wonderful substance in which these distinct qualities of matter are said to exist in this wondrous unity. And I venture to say, before proceeding further, that for my own part, I have never been able to discover the mental side of matter. I should not be at all shocked if it were proved to me that from brain or nerve, ideas, memory, emotion--all that we understand by intellectual life--may as really be developed as motion from muscle. I think I could maintain all that is vital in my relation to God and my fellow-men, in spite of that startling discovery. So ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1880 Excerpt: ... VI. THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. YOU are all familiar with the old story of the shield composed of two materials. The knights approached it from different directions; one of them saw a golden shield, and the other saw a silver shield. They disputed as to the structure of this piece of armour, and, as the story goes, they at length came to blows. We are told that they might have settled their dispute very readily, if each one had passed round to the point of view occupied by the other. It is sometimes said that disputes between philosophers and physiologists are of this kind. We look at the subject from two different stand-points, and if we changed our mode of examination we should be likely to arrive at an ultimate complete agreement. Nowadays, we are told something more. It is maintained that just as that shield had two sides, so has nervous matter, or, indeed, matter of any kind. It is asserted that nervous matter has two sides--an upper and an under, a mental side and a material side. We are told not only that matter has in itself the potency of life, but the potency 'of all life, and that intelligence and will are as much properties of matter as growth and development. In this lecture I have to speak of this wonderful substance in which these distinct qualities of matter are said to exist in this wondrous unity. And I venture to say, before proceeding further, that for my own part, I have never been able to discover the mental side of matter. I should not be at all shocked if it were proved to me that from brain or nerve, ideas, memory, emotion--all that we understand by intellectual life--may as really be developed as motion from muscle. I think I could maintain all that is vital in my relation to God and my fellow-men, in spite of that startling discovery. So ...
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