 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1866 - 352 pages
...tfioughts, under the common head of states of consciousness. But what consciousness is, we know not ; and how it is that anything so remarkable as a state of consciousness comes about as the result of irritating nervous tissue, is just as unaccountable as the appearance of the Djin when... | |
 | James Hutchison Stirling - Protoplasm - 1870 - 80 pages
...thoughts, under the common head of states of consciousness ; but what consciousness is we know not, and how it is that anything so remarkable as a state of consciousness comes about as the result of irritating nervous tissue, is just as unaccountable as the appearance of the Djin when... | |
 | Science - 1871 - 308 pages
...thoughts, under the common head of states of consciousness ; but what consciousness is we know not, and how it is that anything so remarkable as a state of consciousness comes about as the result of irritating nervous tissue, is just as unaccountable as the appearance of the Djin when... | |
 | Science - 1871 - 318 pages
...know not, and how it is that anything so remarkable as a state of consciousness comes about as the result of irritating nervous tissue, is just as unaccountable as the appearance of the Djin when Aladdin rubbed his lamp in the story." Consciousness plainly was not muscular contraction... | |
 | James Ross - Protoplasm - 1874 - 142 pages
...he quotes a passage from Professor Huxley's Physiology which expresses our absolute ignorance of how a state of consciousness comes about as a result of irritating nervous tissue ; and employs the quotation to show * " Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews," p. 135. how Professor... | |
 | Richard Dennis Hoblyn - Medicine - 1878 - 752 pages
...volition, and thought. Jtut what consciousness is, we know not; and "how it is," says Prof. Huxley, "that anything so remarkable as a state of consciousness comes about as the result of irritating nervous tissue, is just as unaccountable as the appearance of the Djin when... | |
 | John Caird - Religion - 1880 - 412 pages
...feelings, ideas, volitions which are their result, an impassable gulf. " How it is," says Mr. Huxley, "that anything so remarkable as a state of consciousness comes about as the result of irritating nervous tissue, is just as unaccountable as the appearance of the Djin when... | |
 | Samuel Wainwright - Evolution - 1881 - 348 pages
...thoughts, under the common head of states of consciousness. But what consciousness is, we know not ; and how it is that anything so remarkable as a state of consciousness comes about as the result of irritating nervous tissue is just as unaccountable as the appearance of the Djin when... | |
 | George Claude Lorimer - Baptists - 1881 - 388 pages
...Sermons, confesses that how " anything so remarkable as a state of consciousness comes about as the • result of irritating nervous tissue, is just as unaccountable as the appearance of the Djin when Aladdin rubbed his lamp," we half suspect him of indulging in a little sly humor at our... | |
 | 1907 - 592 pages
...connection of mind and body is as unsolvable in the modern form as it was in the prehistoric ages."' "How anything so remarkable as A state of consciousness comes about as a result of irritating nerve tissue is just as unaccountable as the Fairy manifestations when Aladdin rubbed his lamp," is... | |
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... how it is that anything so remarkable as a state of consciousness comes about as the result of irritating nervous tissue, is just as unaccountable as the appearance of the Djin when Aladdin rubbed his lamp in the story. 
