The Mechanism of Man: An Answer to the Question, what Am I? A Popular Introduction to Mental Physiology and PsychologyLongman, 1879 - Brain |
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Common terms and phrases
abnormal conditions accepted accordion action animal magnetism answer appears argument asserted awake body brain called catalepsy cause cerebral hemispheres chair clairvoyance communication conclusion Conscious delirium described directed ditions evidence excited exhibited existence experiment explanation expression external world eyes fact fibres finger Frances Power Cobbe ganglion hand hemispheres hypnotic ideas imperceptible imposture impressions influence inquiry Insanity instantly Intelligence investigation knowledge limbs magnetic Materialists memory mental faculties merely mind motion move muscles nerve force normal objects observation occurred operator organ paralysed patient perceive pheno phenomena of dream phenomena of Psychism phenomenon phrenology physical Physiology position possession precisely prepossession produced proof proved Psychic Force Psychology question reader reason retina Science scientific Scientists seen sensations senses sleep somnambulist Soul sounds Spirits Spiritualists suggestion Supersensuous Perception theory thought tion touch Trance Trance condition truth uncon Unconscious Cerebration waking wholly witnessed
Popular passages
Page 93 - As the consequence of this exchange, the right side of the brain controls and directs the left side of the body, and the left side of the brain the right side of the body.
Page 266 - Edinburgh,! seldom saw or heard anything of them, or of him through them, so that all the old schoolboy intimacy had died out and I had nearly forgotten his existence. I had taken, as I have said, a warm bath, and while lying in it .and enjoying the comfort of the heat, after the late freezing I had undergone, I turned my head round...
Page 341 - That under certain bodily or mental conditions of one or more of the persons present, a force is exhibited sufficient to set in motion heavy substances, without the employment of any muscular force, without contact or material connection of any kind between such substances and the body of any person present.
Page 130 - On this she answered under much agitation, " Oh, dear son, thou art dead! " He instantly awoke and thought no more of his dream, until a few days after he received a letter from his father inquiring very anxiously after his health, in consequence of a frightful dream his mother had on the same night in which the dream now mentioned occurred to him. She...
Page 299 - Fate,' and hold his own against them. I have put to him the most difficult questions in psychology, and received answers, always thoughtful, often full of wisdom, and invariably conveyed in choice and elegant language.
Page 187 - It was a quarter past eleven. He then told me, and M. Desor repeated the same thing, that the only fact which had satisfied them that I was in a state of mesmeric sleep, was the facility with which my head followed all the movements of his hand, although he did not touch me, and the pleasure which I appeared to feel at the moment when, after several repetitions of friction, he thus moved my head at pleasure in all directions."— (P.
Page 267 - December 19, and all the particulars, as they are now fresh before me. No doubt I had fallen asleep ; and that the appearance presented so distinctly to my eyes was a dream, I cannot for a moment doubt ; yet for years I had had no communication with G , nor had there been anything to recall him to my recollection ; nothing had 1 Vol. i., p. 201. taken place during our Swedish travels either connected with G or with India, or with anything relating to him, or to any member of his family.
Page 266 - G., looking calmly at me. How I got out of the bath I know not, but on recovering my senses I found myself sprawling on the floor. The apparition, or whatever it was, that had taken the likeness of G., had disappeared.
Page 11 - Two different lines of hieroglyphies have to be read at once, and the right hand has to be guided to attend to one of them, the left to another. All the ten fingers have their work assigned as quickly as they can move. The mind, or something which does duty as mind, interprets scores of A sharps and B flats and C naturals into black ivory keys and white ones, crotchets and quavers and demi-semiqnavers, rests, and all the mysteries of music.
Page 412 - Mr. Wells and Mr. Edwards took hold of the table in such a manner as to exert their strength to the best advantage, but found the invisible power, exercised in an opposite direction, to be quite equal to their utmost efforts.