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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    powers, extends thence upwards to man. And great as may be the final interval between brute intelligence and human reason, yet so much greater is the affinity than the distance, that no disparate modification of organs is required to be made for man; but all that exists in full development in the human brain is found typified and to a great degree already unfolded in the animals that come nearest to man. The true purpose and aim of vitality are thus apparent. Life is a force so contrived and used, as to qualify the materials of the inert world for a temporary union with consciousness;—a means how mind may enter into such relations with matter, that it may have its being and part in physical nature, and its faculties developed, and its capa- bilities and tendencies drawn out and proved (for whatever ulterior purpose) in subjection to and in harmony with her laws. As we imagine the Supreme Mind to be ubiqui- tous, infinite, controlling but uncontrolled by matter, sO in contrast with these attributes we conceive the finite mind to be bound down to place, and to be dependent on a certain arrangement of matter
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