Human anatomy, physiology and hygiene / by T.S. Lambert.

  • Lambert, T. S. (Thomas Scott), 1819-1897
Date:
1854
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    presides with constant and watchful care over the varied and wonderful phenomena of creation. Thus every one has observed that all the ancient and modern philosophers have studied the hu- man organization With the deepest enthusiasm and the strongest emotion. Cicero has described, with all the richness of his style, the forms and beauty of this miraculous being. Fenelon, from the fulness of his Christian soul, most eloquently shows in the perfection of our organs the infinite perfection of our Creator. Bossuet raises himself to the very highest point of philosophical eloquence, when he treats upon this great subject, in his beau- tiful treatise upon the ' Connaissance de Dieu et de soi-meme? which seems to have defied both time and the progress of phi- losophical science * * * * for it exhibits all the truths that can be found in the works of materialists, without presenting any of their wild notions. Kirkes says: But while this may be true respecting things of sense, it would require much more and different evidence and ar- guments to make it probable that the cerebral hemispheres, or any other parts of the brain, are, in any meaning of the term, the or- gans of those parts or powers of the mind which are occupied with things above the senses. The reason or spirit of man, which has knowledge of divine truth, and the conscience, with its natural discernment of right and wrong, cannot be [has not been ?] proved to have any connection with the brain. In the complex life we live, they are indeed often exercised upon questions in which the in- tellect or some other lower mental faculty is also concerned; and in all such cases, men's actions are determined as good or bad, ac- cording to the degree in which they are guided by the higher or lower faculties. But the reason and the conscience must be exer- cised independently of the brain, when they are engaged in the contemplation of things which have not been learned through the senses, or through any intellectual consideration of sensible things. All that a man feels in himself, and can observe in others, of the subjects in which his reason and his conscience are most naturally engaged; of the mode in which these are exercised, and the disturb- ance to which they are liable, by the perceptions or ideas of sen- sible things; of the manner and sources of their instruction; of