Matter and spirit / read by Mr. Serjeant Cox.

  • Edward William Cox
Date:
1876
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Credit: Matter and spirit / read by Mr. Serjeant Cox. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    and is dissipated, and that there is not in that body or associated with it anything in the nature of Soul or Spirit, or by whatever name we may be pleased to call it. I hope that the Society will be enabled to define other disputable terms, not, of course, presuming to do so with any design to impose its own definitions upon the public out of doors, but for the special purpose of securing something approaching to common thought and speech among ourselves in the pursuit of the Science to which the Society is devoted. For the special feature of this Society is that, departing from established methods, it proposes to pursue the Science of Psychology as all other Science is now pursued, by the collection of facts and the observation of phenomena. [130]