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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…
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If it is mind that we are searching the brain, then we are supposing the brain to be much more than a…
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Swiftly the brain becomes an enchanted loom, where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern-always a meaningful pattern-though never an abiding…
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He solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal cord.
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As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in…
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The brain seems a thoroughfare for nerve-action passing its way to the motor animal. It has been remarked that Life's aim is…
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This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual, is the…
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Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined…
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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…
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The terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve to a…
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With the nervous system intact the reactions of the various parts of that system, the 'simple reflexes', are ever combined into great…
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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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