Volume 2

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

  • Thomas Laycock
Date:
1869
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Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    Part V.—PRINCIPLES OF A MENTAL PHYSIOLOGY. Pago Introduction and Limitation, .... 139 Chapter I.—General Doctrines of the Encephalon as THE Seat of the Unifying Pkocesses ok Life and Thought. Unifying Function of Encoplialon. . . . 143 Development of the Special from the General in Inquiry, 145 Illustrated by the Natural History of the Hydrozoa, . 147 Law of Dift'erentiation of the Encephalon, . . 151 Physical Characters do not necessarily reveal Vital Tendencies, 153 The Brain a Compound Organ, .... 164 Chapter II.—Historical Review of Researches into THE L.\\\ OF Cerebral Differentiation with Unity of Function. § 1. The Fhi/siognomical Metliod. Founded on a Faculty of Diagnosis, . . . 157 Cranioscopy as a Science and Art, . . .158 § 2. The Anatomical Method. Researches of Wallis, . . . . . Ifil Era of Prochaska and Gall, . . , . ]()4 Modern Doctrines as to DifFerontiation with Unity. . 171 Conflicting Doctrines reconciled, . . , 174 Chapter III.—Principles of a Physiological Classifi- cation OF Vital and Mental Phenomena in Corre- lation. Causes of Difficulties and Defects in current Classifications, 17(>, Law of Continuity and Complexity of Phenomena, . 178 Distinction of Plants and Animals, . . i^q Principles of Teleiotic Homologies, . . .183