The nervous system and its functions / By Herbert Mayo.

  • Herbert Mayo
Date:
1842
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Credit: The nervous system and its functions / By Herbert Mayo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wholly out of view. And the physical world presents to our contemplation masses of inert matter alone, distributed at enormous distances through space, all in motion, yet nowhere clashing or inharmonious,—the whole stupendous system bearing the impress of order, uniformity, and stability. Our thoughts elevate themselves thence to the conception of one all-pervading Intelligence, which framed and which sustains the world. To discern Life, we have to look upon the surface of our planet, where, scattered in creative profusion, its varieties form the two great classes of plants and animals. In the former, Vitality is displayed alone and unmixed; and all its features are found to be comprised in growth and repro- duction. Or plants manifest the power of im- bibing foreign matter; and of assimilating it, or arranging its elements in new chemical compounds exhibiting new properties; and of so distributing the new products as to determine the proper shape, and bulk, and structure, of each, after its kind; and of moulding germs of the same materials, each capable of the same progression of changes as the
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