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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Credit: The duality of the mind : read at the meeting of the Psychological Society of Great Britain, May 12, 1875 / by Mr. Serjeant Cox. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![THE DUALITY OF THE MIND. Physiologists are agreed in holding the brain to he the material organ of the mind, but opinions differ whether the entire organ is employed in each mental operation, or if special parts of the brain are devoted to special mental functions. Doctors Gall and Spurzheim first publicly maintained that the whole mind is not occupied in each mental act, and that its material organ, the brain, is not one homogeneous whole, but constructed of parts, each part having its own office corresponding to various mental faculties. They asserted, also, that the brain is constructed of two distinct hemispheres; that all the organs of the mental faculties arc also double; that as wc have two eyes and ears so we have two organs of imagination, causality, hope, and so forth. Hence paralysis of one side of the brain does not extinguish the mental faculties on the other side of the brain; a condition wholly inconsistent with the theory that the whole mind and the entiro brain are engaged in every mental act. Gall’s teachings were unmercifully ridiculed and abused by the Physiologists and Philosophers of his time. Orthodox Science will not tolerate scientific heresies. It cannot burn its heretics, but it can excommunicate them. It is the old, old story of which the history of science is half made up. Dogmatic authority rejected evidence * 2 [73]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2244385x_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
