The Animal Kingdom, Considered Anatomically, Physically, and Philosophically, 第 2 巻

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W. Newbery, 1844
 

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374 ページ - The thickness of the cuticle varies in different parts, being greatest in the soles of the feet and the palms of the hands : in other parts the cuticle is very thin.
362 ページ - If we wish to invite real truths, whether natural or moral or spiritual — for they all make common cause by means of correspondence and representation — into the sphere of our rational minds, it is necessary that we extinguish the impure fires of the body and thereby our own delusive lights, and submit and allow our minds unmolested by the influences of the body to be illumined with the rays of the spiritual power : then for the first time truths flow in, for they all emanate from that power...
160 ページ - It is absurd to suppose that any action can begin in the middle of a fibre, and not in its first terminus. If then it begin in the first organs, it must inevitably begin in the cortical glands, for the fibres commence, and are conceived and produced, in those glands, and the arterial vessels of the cerebrum terminate also in them. Hence if the principles of motion exist in them, according to all physical and philosophical laws, as mutually confirmed by and confirming each other, those principles...
162 ページ - I say, to all its organic works, are so mutually connected and coherent, that there is no point whither the pulmonic respiration does not penetrate ; nor is there a single fibre of a nerve which the lungs do not by a general assistance excite to action...
329 ページ - In order that all things may flow to and fro in a constant circle, and that each may be emulous of perpetuity, and describe forms that shall perpetuate the motions of life, — the viscera, cavities, and septa of the organic frame...
539 ページ - ... asking, how it could be that a large face could be expressed in so little room, saying, it should have seemed as impossible to him as to put a bushel of any thing into a pint.
539 ページ - He was very much surprised that those things which he had liked best, did not appear most agreeable to his eyes, expecting those persons would appear most beautiful that he loved most, and such things to be most agreeable to his sight that were so to his taste. We thought he soon knew what pictures represented which...
160 ページ - ... mean the whole congeries, expands. This is the animation of the cerebrum — using the term cerebrum in its widest acceptation — that corresponds to the respiration of the lungs. We must now proceed a step farther. If the animal or nervous spirit, at the intervals of the constriction of these organic...
655 ページ - It appears best to give an answer to the particular details of the question separately, adding certain bibliographical observations, in order to enable the reader to form an idea of the contents and size of each manuscript, and of the amount of labor necessary for transcribing it.
658 ページ - ... the cranium. Chap. III. The dura mater, and the power of production, and so forth, — without any development of the subjects indicated. There is next a continuation of the dissertation on The structure of the brain, (p. 206-209) ; The functions of the brain, (p. 209-232) ; and a Summary statement of the same, (p. 232, 233) ; The dura mater, (p. 234-241.) The several treatises to which the above titles refer, do not appear to be finished productions, fully reasoned out, but rather to be outlines,...

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