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Mind and brain, or, The correlations of consciousness and organisation; systemically investigated and applied to philosophy, mental science and practice / by Thomas Laycock.

Date:
1869
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Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Chapter XI.—Fundamental Peinciples of Moephology. OR THE Laws of Existence in Relation to Space. g 1. General Doctrines of the Forms of Things. The Form and Limits of a thing due to the action of its Forces, Forms are Absolute and Eelative, .... Limits of a thing considered as its Isodynamic boundaries, Form due to Co-existent Phenomena, Law of Evolution of Form from the Simple to the Complex, Genera and Species in the Forms of Crystals, g 2. General Laws of Absolute or Permanent Fornix. Organisms hate no Absolute Permanence of Form, . 34!) The Archetypal or Relatively Absolute Form of Organisms, 350 Unity as the Cause of the Sphere, . . . 351 Duality as the Cause of the Elliptical Spheroid, . . 35] Plurality and Totality as the Cause of Complex Forms, . 352 Geometrical Theories of the Beautiful—Hay, Macvicar, . 352 Laws of Animal Symmetry, .... 353 3. General Latvs of Contingent or Variable Forms of Organisms. Fundamental Laws of Variation, .... 35() Theory of the Action of External Forces—Hinton, H. Spencer, ....... 358 Law of Adaptation applied to Form—Lamarck, Darwin, Sedgwick, Powell, . . . . .361 Law of Hereditary Transmission, • . . 365 Chapter XIL—The Law of Evolutional Develop- ment OF Archetypal Forms. An Archetypal Idea analogous to a General Proposition— Agaasiz, ....... 307 Law of Prescient or Prophetic Types, . . . 369 344 345 346 347 348 349
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