TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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INTRODUCTION.

CHAPTER I.

DEFINITION AND DIVISIONS OF MIND.

1. Mind opposed to the Extended

2. Mind has three properties,-Feeling, Volition, Thought

3. Elucidation of these properties

4. Classifications of Mind.-Understanding and Will; Intellectual

Powers and Active Powers; Brown's division; Hamilton's;

Dr. Sharpey's

5. Plan of the present volume

6. Statement of the fundamental law of Relativity

CHAPTER II.

THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.

1. Connexion of mental processes with bodily organs

2. Proofs that the Brain is the principal organ of Mind

Connexion of size of brain with mental energy

3. Parts of the NERVOUS SYSTEM

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Grey matter of the brain

8. Plan of Structure indicated by the arrangement of white and

grey substance

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Anterior and posterior roots of Spinal Nerves

11. The Function of a nerve is to transmit influence

12. Sentient and Motor roots of spinal nerves

13. Cerebral Nerves

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Necessary to sensation and movement in the trunk and extremi-

ties of the body

A centre of Movements not voluntary

Tonicity of the Muscles

15. Medulla Oblongata

Rotatory movements caused by injuries of parts of the brain

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Of the Nerve Force and the Course of Power in the Brain.

22. Nerve force is of the nature of a current

23. Experiments showing the community of nature between it and

24. Nerve-force derived from the common source of natural power,

25. Impropriety of looking on the Brain as a Sensorium ..

A current action is involved in every exertion of the brain

Immediate source of nerve force, the blood ..

MOVEMENT, SENSE, AND INSTINCT.

Reasons for including Appetites and Instincts in the same
department with the Senses

CHAPTER I.

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SPONTANEOUS ACTIVITY AND THE FEELINGS OF

MOVEMENT.

1. Feelings connected with Movement, a distinct class

Their consideration to precede the Senses

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6. Movements anterior to, and independent of, Sensation

Proofs that there are such movements

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8. The Natural History of the Feelings, a part of the Science of

Mind. Method and order of description

9. Classification of Feelings of Movement

15. Slow Movements

16. Movements gradually increasing or diminishing

17. Quick Movements

18. Feeling of loss of support

19. Passive movements

II. Perceptions grounded in the Muscular Feelings.

20. Discrimination of degrees and modes of muscular exertion

21. Consciousness of Exertion or expended force-sense of Resist-

ance, force, inertia

22. Examples of the feeling of resistance. Momentum. Weight.

23. Consciousness of the Continuance of a muscular exertion. Esti-

mate of Time. Means of estimating Extension

Note

24. Consciousness of the degree of Velocity of movements

Consciousness of the state of contraction of a muscle.

Sir W. Hamilton's distinction between the locomotive faculty

and the muscular sense. Note

CHAPTER II.

OF SENSATION.

Sensations of the five Senses

Common or general sensibility

Propriety of constituting the feelings of Organic Life into a

Emotional and Intellectual Senses

2. Organic pains of muscle,-cuts, lacerations, injuries of the

tissue; Bodily origin and manifestations

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3. Mental characters:-Acute pains in general typified, and

described

4. Cramp or spasm, its physical nature and mental character-

9. Feeling of the healthy and fresh condition of the nerve tissue.

Stimulants

Organic Feelings of the Circulation and Nutrition.

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10. Thirst; Starvation; pleasures of pure animal existence

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Feelings of Respiration.

11. Respiratory process

12. Feelings of pure air; Freshness; feelings of Relief

13. Feelings of insufficient and impure air; Suffocation

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Feelings of Heat and Cold

14. Physical effects of heat and cold. The sensation of Cold

15. Sensation of Heat

18. Summary of the Physiology of digestion

19. Alimentary Feelings: taking of food and healthy digestion