Peg along / by George Lincoln Walton.

  • George Lincoln Walton
Date:
[1915], ©1915
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Credit: Peg along / by George Lincoln Walton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I must confess I never could visualize the process, but such sentences no longer alarm me. I have come to realize that, like the electric van that thunders over the cross-walk, they do not go so fast as they make a noise! But we can study, let us say, elec¬ tricity without knowing just what it is; nor is it deemed rash to state that the generation of this force cannot be accomplished without physical means. Likewise, -of the mind we can say the signs all point in one direction. When certain parts of the brain are lost, intellectual defects appear. From observations of this kind we conclude also that the various sensations are received in definite brain cells, while the motions stimulated by those sensa¬ tions originate in others. The inevi¬ table outcome of sensation is motion; it is by our motions that others meas¬ ure our mental balance. So we can keep within our beat, our minds are within the normal, though our