Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- BOOK I GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY
- BOOK II SPECIAL PHYSIOLOGY
- CHAPTER X OF MEMORY
- CHAPTER XI OF COMMON SENSE
- CHAPTER XII OF IMAGINATION
- CHAPTER XIII OF UNCONSCIOUS CEREBRATION
- CHAPTER XIV OF REVERIE AND ABSTRACTION:—ELECTRO-BIOLOGY
- CHAPTER XV OF SLEEP, DREAMING, AND SOMNAMBULISM
- CHAPTER XVI OF MESMEBISM AND SPIRITUALISM
- CHAPTER XVII OF INTOXICATION AND DELIRIUM
- CHAPTER XVIII OF INSANITY
- CHAPTER XIX INFLUENCE OF MENTAL STATES ON THE ORGANIC FUNCTIONS
- CHAPTER XX OF MIND AND WILL IN NATURE
- APPENDIX. DR. FERRIER'S EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES ON THE BRAIN
- INDEX
CHAPTER XX - OF MIND AND WILL IN NATURE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- BOOK I GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY
- BOOK II SPECIAL PHYSIOLOGY
- CHAPTER X OF MEMORY
- CHAPTER XI OF COMMON SENSE
- CHAPTER XII OF IMAGINATION
- CHAPTER XIII OF UNCONSCIOUS CEREBRATION
- CHAPTER XIV OF REVERIE AND ABSTRACTION:—ELECTRO-BIOLOGY
- CHAPTER XV OF SLEEP, DREAMING, AND SOMNAMBULISM
- CHAPTER XVI OF MESMEBISM AND SPIRITUALISM
- CHAPTER XVII OF INTOXICATION AND DELIRIUM
- CHAPTER XVIII OF INSANITY
- CHAPTER XIX INFLUENCE OF MENTAL STATES ON THE ORGANIC FUNCTIONS
- CHAPTER XX OF MIND AND WILL IN NATURE
- APPENDIX. DR. FERRIER'S EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES ON THE BRAIN
- INDEX
Summary
573. The views expressed in the preceding pages as to the constitution of the Mind of Man, and its relation to his Bodily Organism, appear to the Writer to be capable of legitimate extension to the notion which we form of the Mind of the Deity in its relation to that Universe, whose phenomena, so interpreted, are but a continual revelation of His universal presence and ceaseless agency. And he deems it desirable here to advert to this subject (foreign though it may seem to the proper object of this Treatise), for the sake of showing not merely that the doctrine herein propounded is strictly conformable to the highest teachings of Religion, but that it affords some guidance towards the solution of difficulties which have perplexed many deep-thinking men, and which have (especially of late) tended to keep Science and Religion in mutual antagonism, instead of in that harmonious co-operation which should spring from the intimacy of their relationship. For, as Mr. Martineau has well said, “Science discloses the Method of the world, but not its Cause; Religion its Cause, but not its Method; and there is no conflict between them, except when either forgets its ignorance of what the other alone can know.”
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- Principles of Mental PhysiologyWith their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the Mind, and the Study of its Morbid Conditions, pp. 691 - 708Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1874