The mysteries of human nature explained by a new system of nervous physiology : to which is added, a review of the errors of spiritualism, and instructions for developing or resisting the influence by which subjects and mediums are made (1857)
Grimes, J. Stanley (James Stanley), 1807-1903 · Buffalo : Wanzer · leaf 81
out them. A nerve centre is situatedlike a coach-driver on his box, who can, from a centralpoint, manage a number of horses at once. If we wouldapply this illustration to the whole nervous organism, wemust suppose the mind to be seated on the drivers box,in the oblongata, and we must regard all the… … Figure 15 represents tbe five degrees or repetitions of the animalfunctions. 1, The vegetative, which corresponds with the whole organ-ism of the polypus. 2, Represents the degree of elevation of the PHRENO-lHYSIOLOGY. 81 animals, which, like the starfish, have merely a few apparently acon-scious…
Nervous System Physiological Phenomena · Phrenology · Spiritualism
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