 It would be incompatible with everything we know of the cerebral action, to suppose that the physical chain ends abruptly in a physical void, occupied by an immaterial substance; which immaterial substance, after working alone, imparts its results to...  The Cat - Page 373by St. George Jackson Mivart - 1881 - 557 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American literature - 1867 - 796 pages
...be incompatible with everything we know of the cerebral action, to suppose that the physical chain ends abruptly in a physical void, occupied by an immaterial...substance, after working alone, imparts its results to the otner edge of the physical break, and determines the active response — two shores of the material... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1867 - 552 pages
...be incompatible with everything we know of the cerebral action, to suppose that the physical chain ends abruptly in a physical void, occupied by an immaterial...material with an intervening ocean of the immaterial. There is, in fact, no rupture of nervous continuity. The only tenable supposition is, that mental and... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1874 - 756 pages
...be incompatible with everything we know of the cerebral actions to suppose that the physical chain ends abruptly in a physical void occupied by an immaterial...material with an intervening ocean of the immaterial." Now remembering that movements of all kinds are physical facts, have their place in the "unbroken material... | |
 | Alexander Bain - Mind and body - 1874 - 232 pages
...be incompatible with everything we know of the cerebral action, to suppose that the physical chain ends abruptly in a physical void, occupied by an immaterial...material with an intervening ocean of the immaterial. There is, in fact, no rupture of nervous continuity. The only tenable supposition is, that mental and... | |
 | Balfour Stewart - Force and energy - 1874 - 274 pages
...be incompatible with every thing we know of the cerebral action to suppose that the physical chain ends abruptly in a physical void, occupied by an immaterial...material with an intervening ocean of the immaterial. There is, in fact, no rupture of nervous continuity. The only tenable supposition is, that mental and... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1874 - 546 pages
...be incompatible with everything we know of the cerebral actions to suppose that the physical chain ends abruptly in a physical void occupied by an immaterial...material with an intervening ocean of the immaterial." Now remembering that movements of all kinds are physical facts, have their place in the "unbroken material... | |
 | Henry Allon - English periodicals - 1874 - 764 pages
...would be incompatible with everything we know of the cerebral action to supposethat the physical chain ends abruptly in a physical void, occupied by an immaterial...material, with an intervening ocean of the immaterial. There is, in fact, no rupture of nervous continuity.' — P. 181. But if, on these grounds, it is impossible,... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1874 - 542 pages
...be incompatible with everything we know of the cerebral actions to suppose that the physical chain ends abruptly in a physical void occupied by an immaterial...material with an intervening ocean of the immaterial." Now remembering that movements of all kinds are physical facts, have their place in the " unbroken... | |
 | Balfour Stewart - Force and energy - 1874 - 264 pages
...be incompatible with every thing we know of the cerebral action to suppose that the physical chain ends abruptly in a physical void, occupied by an immaterial substance ; which immaterial snbstance, after working alone, imparts its results to the other edge of the physical break, and determines... | |
 | Balfour Stewart - Force and energy - 1875 - 256 pages
...be incompatible with every thing we know of the cerebral action to suppose that the physical chain ends abruptly in a physical void, occupied by an immaterial...material with an intervening ocean of the immaterial. There is, in fact, no rupture of nervous continuity. The only tenable supposition is, that mental and... | |
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