A lecture, introductory to a course of lectures, on anatomy, physiology, and surgery / delivered at the School of Medicine and Surgery, Gerrard Street, Soho, by G.D. Dermott.
- Dermott, G. D. (George Darby), 1802-1847.
- Date:
- 1833
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A lecture, introductory to a course of lectures, on anatomy, physiology, and surgery / delivered at the School of Medicine and Surgery, Gerrard Street, Soho, by G.D. Dermott. 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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![ception.—That there is a continued circh.' of mental action cannot be doubted, and that there must be a circle of Cerebral substance conducting that circle of mental action, is, I think, also clear. Thought, I consider to be resident in some part of this Cerebral circle, and it is the faculty which the Brain possesses to work upon, or digest its contents. Just as the Stomach digests its contents, so does the Brain the impressions or sensations which it receives, and its own perception created in it by those sensations, having a power to re-act upon them by means of the faculty of thought. Having stated thus much regarding the materiality of the mind, it is next my duty to shew that this doctrine is quite compatible with Scripture, and that many things mentioned in the Bible cor- roborate the Theory which I advocate. To suppose that a person favouring materiality, favours infidelity, is a notion begotten only by bigotry and ignorance. Surely the Objectionists against mate- riality could never have read their Bible—if so, let me ask them— is it not in the power of Omnipotence, to make materiality immate- riality, to- spiritualize the materia Vitaj or the material mind, or to so modify the latter as well as the material body itself, as to adapt both for an existence in another world. That such a change in our vital matter takes place, is beautifully exemplified in the person of Jesus Christ. For when Christ appeared to his Disci- ]>les subsequently to his Resurrection, the doors being shut, he must have been spiritualized, body, life and all, as the gross matter of a common human body could never have permeated the matter of the doors and walls—but when Thomas put his hand into his side, he was for the time miraculously materialized—and when he disappeared from the midst of them, and ascended to Heaven, he was like Elijah, miraculously spiritualized, as we shall be at the Resurrection by an Omnipotent power—for though Christ was the Divinity, still it is asserted that he was the first fruits of them that slept: this miraculous phenomenon is quite in correspondence with what St. Paul says in his 2nd Epistle to Corinthians, chap.1.5, verse 44. It is sown a natural body ; it is raised a sjtiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural, (material) and afterwards that which is spiritual, or as the materialist might say there is a material mind, and there will be a spiritual mind. Again verse 51 and 52, We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.— For flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Is not this transmutation in the power of Omnipotence, let them answer this in the negative, and shew moreover, that their negative reply is proved by assertions, in the Bi-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22270383_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
