Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE
- CHAPTER I THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM
- CHAPTER II OUR BODILY FRAME
- CHAPTER III OUR LIFE
- CHAPTER IV OUR EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT
- CHAPTER V THE HISTORY OF OUR SPECIES
- CHAPTER VI THE NATURE OF THE SOUL
- CHAPTER VII PSYCHIC GRADATIONS
- CHAPTER VIII THE EMBRYOLOGY OF THE SOUL
- CHAPTER IX THE PHYLOGENY OF THE SOUL
- CHAPTER X CONSCIOUSNESS
- CHAPTER XI THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL
- CHAPTER XII THE LAW OF SUBSTANCE
- CHAPTER XIII THE EVOLUTION OF THE WORLD
- CHAPTER XIV THE UNITY OF NATURE
- CHAPTER XV GOD AND THE WORLD
- CHAPTER XVI KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF
- CHAPTER XVII SCIENCE AND CHRISTIANITY
- CHAPTER XVIII OUR MONISTIC RELIGION
- CHAPTER XIX OUR MONISTIC ETHICS
- CHAPTER XX SOLUTION OF THE WORLD-PROBLEMS
- INDEX
CHAPTER IX - THE PHYLOGENY OF THE SOUL
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE
- CHAPTER I THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM
- CHAPTER II OUR BODILY FRAME
- CHAPTER III OUR LIFE
- CHAPTER IV OUR EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT
- CHAPTER V THE HISTORY OF OUR SPECIES
- CHAPTER VI THE NATURE OF THE SOUL
- CHAPTER VII PSYCHIC GRADATIONS
- CHAPTER VIII THE EMBRYOLOGY OF THE SOUL
- CHAPTER IX THE PHYLOGENY OF THE SOUL
- CHAPTER X CONSCIOUSNESS
- CHAPTER XI THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL
- CHAPTER XII THE LAW OF SUBSTANCE
- CHAPTER XIII THE EVOLUTION OF THE WORLD
- CHAPTER XIV THE UNITY OF NATURE
- CHAPTER XV GOD AND THE WORLD
- CHAPTER XVI KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF
- CHAPTER XVII SCIENCE AND CHRISTIANITY
- CHAPTER XVIII OUR MONISTIC RELIGION
- CHAPTER XIX OUR MONISTIC ETHICS
- CHAPTER XX SOLUTION OF THE WORLD-PROBLEMS
- INDEX
Summary
Gradual historical evolution of the human soul from the animal soul. Methods of phylogenetic psychology. Four chief stages in the phylogeny of the soul. I. The cell-soul (cytopsyche) of the protist (infusoria, ova, etc.): cellular psychology. II. The soul of a colony of cells, or the cenobitic soul (cœnopsyche): psychology of the morula and blastula. III. The soul of the tissue (histopsyche): its twofold nature. The soul of the plant. The soul of the lower, nerveless animal. Double soul of the siphonophora (personal and kormal soul). IV. The nerve-soul (neuro-psyche) of the higher animal. Three sections of its psychic apparatus: sense-organs, muscles, and nerves. Typical formation of the nerve-centre in the various groups of animals. Psychic organ of the vertebrate: the brain and the spinal cord. Phylogeny of the mammal soul.
The theory of descent, combined with anthropological research, has convinced us of the descent of our human organism from a long series of animal ancestors by a slow and gradual transformation occupying many millions of years. Since, then, we cannot dissever man's psychic life from the rest of his vital functions—we are rather forced to a conviction of the natural evolution of our whole body and mind—it becomes one of the main tasks of the modern monistic psychology to trace the stages of the historical development of the soul of man from the soul of the brute.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1900