HeredityD. Appleton and Company, 1875 - 393 páginas |
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action admitted ÆSCHYLUS animal appears atavism become brain brother cause character characteristics Charles child complex consciousness consequently constitution Darwin daughter deaf-mutes descendants died dipsomania disease distinguished evolution existence experience explain external facts faculties father grandfather grandson habit hallucination Hence Herbert Spencer hereditary transmission hypochondria hypothesis idea imagination individual influence inherited insanity instances instinct intellect intelligence Lady Hester Stanhope law of heredity Lucas Marozia mechanism melipona memory mental metaphysical mind modes modifications monomania moral morbid mother myopia naturalist nature nephew nervous noumenon observed organic Origin of Species painter parents passions Pepin the Short perception phenomena physical physiological physiological heredity poet possessed primitive produce psychical psychological heredity qualities question race racter reflex action regard remarkable resemblance result sensation sense sentiments simple sons species spontaneity strabismus suppose talent tendency theory thought tion transmitted uncle unconscious
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Página 255 - ... the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously, we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor, apparently, any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass by a process of reasoning from the one phenomenon to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why.
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Página 1 - Heredity is that biological law by which all beings endowed with life tend to repeat themselves in their descendants : it is for the species what personal identity is for the individual.
Página 395 - FRS i vol. Cloth. Price, $1.50. No. 2. PHYSICS AND POLITICS; or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of " Natural Selection " and " Inheritance
Página 383 - ... in mass, in complexity, in activity. The larger body of emotion needed as a fountain of energy for men who have to hold their places and rear their families under the intensifying competition of social life, is, other things equal, the correlative of larger brain. Those higher feelings presupposed by the better selfregulation which, in a better society, can alone enable the individual to leave a persistent posterity, are, other things equal, the correlatives of a more complex brain ; as are also...
Página 398 - Hittell's method is compact, embracing a wide field in a few words, often presenting a mere hint, when a fuller treatment is craved by the reader; but, although his book cannot be commended as a model of literary art, it may be consulted to great advantage by every lover of free thought and novel suggestions.
Página 384 - The necessary antagonism of Individuation and Genesis, not only, then, fulfils with precision the ii priori law of maintenance of race, from the Monad up to Man, but ensures final attainment of the highest form of this maintenance — a form in which the amount of life shall be the greatest possible, and the births and deaths the fewest possible.
Página 396 - Forthcoming Volumes. Prof. W. KINGDON CLIFFORD, MA The First Principles of the Exact Sciences explained to the Non-mathematical. Prof. TH HUXLEY, LL.D,, FRS Bodily Motion and Consciousness.
Página 396 - On Cephalization ; or, Head-Characters in the Gradation and Progress of Life. Prof. SW JOHNSON, MA On the Nutrition of Plants. Prof. AUSTIN FLINT, Jr. MD The Nervous System and its Relation to the Bodily Functions.
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