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acquired activity acute afferent nerve appear attack automatic become bodily body brain cause cerebellum cerebral hemispheres character child co-ordinate complex conception condition connexion consciousness consequence constitution convolutions convulsive corpora quadrigemina definite degeneration delusion dementia derangement disease disorder display effect emotion energy epilepsy excited exhibited existence experience external nature eyes fact faculty feeling force function ganglionic cells give rise hallucinations human idea ideational idiots impressions impulse incoherent individual innate insanity instinct irritation J. S. Mill kind less mania manifest matter medulla oblongata melancholia ment mental action metaphysical mind monomania moral morbid motor intuition movements muscles muscular necessary nerve nerve-cell nervous centres nervous element nervous system nutrition observation organic element painful paralysis particular passion patient physiological produced reaction reflex action relations residua result sensation sense sensibility sensory centres sensory ganglia sometimes spinal centres spinal cord stimulus takes place things thought tion tissue unconscious volition
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Page 62 - O Adam, one Almighty is, from whom 'All things proceed, and up to him return, < If not depraved from good ; created all Such to perfection, one first matter all, Endued with various forms, various degrees Of substance, and, in things that live, of life...
Page 147 - The motion of our body follows upon the command of our will. Of this we are every moment conscious. But the means, by which this is effected; the energy, by which the will performs so extraordinary an operation; of this we are so far from being immediately conscious, that it must for ever escape our most diligent enquiry.
Page 264 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
Page 264 - Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world; we bring impurity much rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That...
Page 68 - And therefore it was a good answer that was made by one who when they showed him hanging in a temple a picture of those who had paid their vows as having escaped shipwreck, and would have him say whether he did not now acknowledge the power of the gods,— "Aye," asked he again, "but where are they painted that were drowned, after their vows?
Page 65 - If an act became no easier after being done several times, if the careful direction of consciousness were necessary to its accomplishment on each occasion, it is evident that the whole activity of a lifetime might be confined to one or two deeds— that no progress could take place in development.
Page 408 - I should infinitely prefer a garret or a cellar for lodgings, with bread and water only for food, than to be clothed in purple and fine linen, and to fare sumptuously every day...
Page 147 - We only feel the event. namely. the existence of an idea consequent to a command of the will: but the manner in which this operation is performed. the power by which it is produced. is entirely beyond our comprehension.
Page 108 - If innate be equivalent to natural, then all the perceptions and ideas of the mind must be allowed to be innate, or natural, in whatever sense we take the latter word, whether in opposition to what is uncommon, artificial, or miraculous. If by innate be meant contemporary to our birth, the dispute seems to be frivolous ; nor is it worth while to inquire at what time thinking begins, whether before, at, or after our birth.
Page 221 - Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another, And all to all the world besides : Each part may call the farthest, brother : For head with foot hath private amity, And both with moons and tides. Nothing hath got so far, But Man hath caught and kept it, as his prey His eyes dismount the highest star He is in little all the sphere. Herbs gladly cure our flesh, because that they Find their acquaintance...