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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![•with two eyes proves that the two eyes are not distinctly complete and separate organs, each capable of acting alone when its fellow is injured or destroyed.” The late Sir Henry Holland, I believe, also maintained the same doctrine of the duplicity of the brain, and the consequent Duality of the Mind. Brown-Sequard fully admits this to be the anatomical structure of the brain, and makes a practical application of it by asserting that, as the necessary consequence of such a brain structure, if brain be the mental organ, we have tivo minds. He accepts this conclusion without hesitation and proceeds to make practical application of it to education and other mental uses. The Duality of the Mind being thus established as a fact, it will be found of invaluable importance in psychological science, every branch of which it must modify more or less. It will solve a multitude of problems that hitherto have baffled the most sagacious of the mental and moral philosophers. It will throw light upon the sources of the earliest forms of life. It will revolutionize the Science of Mind; it will advance the Science of Soul. Nor is it of theoretical and scientific interest merely. It is of immense practical value in the processes of education, in the guidance of our own minds, in observation of the minds of others. It would be impossible to do anything like justice to so great a theme in one or in a dozen evenings. The fact itself deserves, and I hope will insure, discussion here. But the applications of it are so many that they must be themes for many future papers and many profoundly interesting debates in this Society. Illustrative facts are invited from all quarters as contributions to the store of information which we hope to gather relative to this question. It would be impossible for me in one paper to do more than open the inquiry and indicate what there is to be explored. [79]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2244385x_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
