The duality of the mind : read at the meeting of the Psychological Society of Great Britain, May 12, 1875 / by Mr. Serjeant Cox.
- Edward William Cox
- Date:
- [1875]
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![disordered, the two brains convey incongruous and con- flicting impressions to the Conscious Self, and it is from an examination of these that we shall learn the true characteris- tics of the Dual Mind and the manner of the action of its duplex structure. Taking, then, for our standpoint the facts : (1) That we have two distinct and perfect brains united for common action, perhaps by the bands that pass between them, certainly by the common base upon which they rest. (2.) That the brain being the material organ by means of which the individual Conscious Self maintains its communication with the material world without and performs its functions in its present state of existence, such a double brain conducts to the inevitable conclusion that we have two minds, that act in perfect harmony in the normal condition of the organism, but which can and do act separately in many of its abnormal con- ditions and under special circumstances. These conclusions of Gall, Spuezheim, Wigan, Sir Henry Holland, and Brown-Sequard being accepted as the actual form of our mental structure, there remains to us the important and interesting inquiry What are the consequences of such mental structure ? To what extent are those anticipated results ascertained by observed mental phenomena ? These questions will occupy the remainder of this paper and probably two or three more which I hope to have the honour to submit to the Society during the next Session; for they will certainly demand, and doubtless will receive, the most ample consideration and discussion J \* metnbers- My present purpose is to direct their oughts into a channel probably new to most of them, [81]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2244385x_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
