Cerebral psychology : read at a meeting of the Psychological Society of Great Britain / by Charles Bray.
- Charles Bray
- Date:
- [1877?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Cerebral psychology : read at a meeting of the Psychological Society of Great Britain / by Charles Bray. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![ment or purpose. The External Senses are the connecting links between these faculties and the external world, and in direct perception are necessary to bring the faculties that perceive existence into activity. The Feelings are the Self-Protecting, the Self-Regarding, the Social, the Moral, the ^Esthetic, the Religious, and the feelings which give concentration, power, or permanence to the others. Each of these divisions comprises a group of feelings or faculties. Each Intellectual Faculty and Feeling is connected with a particular part of the brain, the relative size of which can be pretty accurately de- termined by those who have qualified themselves for the purpose. These thoughts and feelings, thus consequent upon the molecular action of the brain, are but varied kinds of sensibility differing from the monad to man according tcq the structure or body with which it is connected, and with intensity of feeling in proportion to the size and perfection of the organ through which it acts. We have now, I think, a sufficiency of facts before us to enable us to determine what we set out to do, viz., what the knowledge is we carry about in our heads, and how it gets packed there. Now, as to the nature of our knowledge, we know, and can know, only our own consciousness, that is, the thoughts and feelings we carry about in our heads. We think we know a great deal more about the world without us; but all we really know of it is simply how things without us act upon our sensibility. As J. S. Mill says, “ What we term the properties of an object, are the powers it exerts of producing sensations in our consciousness.” The generality of mankind think they know a great deal more. They believe in an external world as it appears to them, and not merely in modifications of our sensibility. Fichte says of these things external, there is, in fact, nothing there, but only a manifestation of power from something that is [212]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22443940_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
