Child psychology / by Vilhelm Rasmussen ; [translated by G.G. Berry].

  • Vilhelm Rasmussen
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[1920]
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Credit: Child psychology / by Vilhelm Rasmussen ; [translated by G.G. Berry]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    II THE PSYCHICAL AND THE PHYSICAL HE very possibility of instituting psycho- physical experiments rests on the close relation of dependency which exists between the activities of the soul and the bodily or “ physical ” activities. Whatever view one may hold of the relation between “soul” and body, whether one is a materialist, an idealist, an adherent of the identity- hypothesis,' or of other hypotheses, one is obliged to admit the fact that the phenomena of the soul’s life always correspond to manifestations of physical life in the nervous system. We know no life of the soul which is not linked to a nervous system in working order ; and whenever anything happens in the soul of a person, it is always possible to detect signs of fatigue. There is absolutely no sharp line between the psychical and the physical, as ordinary language would lead one to suppose. There is no boundary,” says Meumann, “between bodily and mental work; all bodily work is at the same time mental. . .; all mental work is at the same time bodily, accompanied by parallel physical processes in the brain and (the other parts of) the nervous system. Consequently 1 On this see H. Høffding, Psykologi ; and K, Kroman, Tenke- og Sjelelere. :
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