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That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition…

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Natural knowledge has not forgone emotion. It has simply taken for itself new ground of emotion, under impulsion from and in sacrifice…
If it is mind that we are searching the brain, then we are supposing the brain to be much more than a…
Swiftly the brain becomes an enchanted loom, where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern-always a meaningful pattern-though never an abiding…
He solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal cord.
As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in…
The brain seems a thoroughfare for nerve-action passing its way to the motor animal. It has been remarked that Life's aim is…
This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual, is the…
Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined…
That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given…
The terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve to a…
With the nervous system intact the reactions of the various parts of that system, the 'simple reflexes', are ever combined into great…
Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and…

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We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the Fibres of… — Nicolas Steno
The relative importance of the white and gray matter is often misunderstood. Were it not for the manifold connection of the nerve… — Edward Anthony Spitzka
And now, as a germination of planetary dimensions, comes the thinking layer which over its full extent develops and intertwines its fibres,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
If the cells and fibres in one human brain were all stretched out end to end, they would certainly reach to the… — Colin Blakemore
That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given… — Charles Scott Sherrington
Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that… — Pearl S. Buck
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres. — Victor Hugo
Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.… — Oscar Wilde
Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle… — George Eliot
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Plants grow most in the darkest hours preceding dawn; so do human souls. Nature always pays for a brave fight. Sometimes she… — William George Jordan

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