Cerebral psychology : read at a meeting of the Psychological Society of Great Britain / by Charles Bray.

  • Charles Bray
Date:
[1877?]
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Credit: Cerebral psychology : read at a meeting of the Psychological Society of Great Britain / by Charles Bray. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Life, Mind, Soul, then, what are they ? Of Life—this “vital spark of heavenly flame”—we know nothing, but that it is dependent for its existence on “ the continuous adjust- ment of internal relations to external relations,” and sensi- bility, that is, the aggregate of all our thoughts and feelings, which we call the Mind, depends upon Life. The Soul is the force or power which anything possesses, 9 whether that be conscious or unconscious. Bach separate thought has its own soul, each “ organic unit ” of the body which has its own proper attribute, has its separate soul or force, the specific action of which is entirely dependent upon the whole body. As Cowper says : “ There lives and works A soul in all things, and that soul is God.” “ Science,” Carnot tells us, “ conducts God with honour to its frontiers,. thanking Him for His provisional ser- vices.” This is too much the attitude of science at the present day; but if, as Tyndall says, we find in matter, “jthe promise and potency of every form of life,” then what he calls matter, which “ at bottom,” he says, “ is essentially mystical and transcendental,” is what we call God, in Whom, and through Whom all things exist, and Science is_our “Revelation.”* In another paper I have treated of this “ Soul in all things,” under the title of “Natural Law, as Automatic Mind or Unconscious Intelligence.” * It is but one form of the Universal—of the “Substance” of Spinoza, of the “ Being ” of Hegel. [218]
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