Changes produced in the nervous system by civilization : considered according to the evidence of physiology and the philosophy of history / by Robert Verity.

  • Verity, Robert.
Date:
1839
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    THE CHANGES PRODUCED IN NERVOUS SYSTEM. CHAPTER I. PHYSIOLOGY AND HISTORY, NATURE AND EXTENT OF THE SUBJECT. I. The highest, physiological authorities of modern times agree in maintaining that the General Nervous System is an absolutely neces- sary condition for the manifestation of the many kinds of activity, animal, moral, and intellectual, which take place in the human subject; and it has been regarded with great truth as a charac- teristic feature of these later times, that the superior functions of this system have been universally expressed with a plenitude, extension, and energy, hitherto unrecorded in the history of man. It is proposed to show in the following pages, by logical deduction from these grounds, as well B