Outlines of Phrenology; As an Accompaniment to the Phrenological Bust
(This historic book may have numerous typos and missing te...)
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. 1821 Excerpt: ...proceed with its own imaginations, and to feel and think as in matters of fact: thus producing the incidents, and the whole drama of a dream. Nay, even while we are awake, actions of nerves unexcited by external causes may take place, and produce the appearance of persons and things, " in form as palpable" as realities, Ferriar on Apparitions. However, I readily concur in the proposition, that the brain of animals ought to be regarded as the organization by which their percipient principle becomes variously affected. First, because in the senses of sight, hearing, and smelling, I see distinct organs for the production of each sensation: Secondly, because the brain is larger and more complicated in proportion as the va riety of affections of the percipient principle is increased. Thirdly, because diseases and injuries disturb or annul particular faculties and affections, without influencing others; and, Fourthly, because it seems to me. more reasonable to suppose that whatever is perceptive may be variously affected by means of vital actions transmitted through a diversity of organization, than to suppose that such variety depends upon original differences in the nature of the percipient principle., ' If, from considering the variety of our senses, and their total want of correspondence to the causes which must undoubtedly produce them, I mean the impulses of masses or atoms of surrounding substances exciting actions in our nervous fibrils, and also, from the consciousness we possess of the unity of that which perceives, attends, reasons, decides, and wills, I am compelled to admit, as I have formerly argued in the lectures given in this College, that all variety of sensation results from the nature and attributes of something most wonderfully and ...
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