The Phrenological Journal and Miscellany, 10. köideProprietors, 1837 |
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... mind , and must therefore be intended for a useful pur- pose ; but as Combativeness , Self - esteem , and Love of Appro- bation , the faculties from which it arises , generally perform this part of their duty - nay greatly exceed it ...
... mind , and must therefore be intended for a useful pur- pose ; but as Combativeness , Self - esteem , and Love of Appro- bation , the faculties from which it arises , generally perform this part of their duty - nay greatly exceed it ...
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... mind on brain holds through all the orders of animated nature , why is not the brain in the lower tribes always proportioned to the amount of mind manifested by them ? It requires but a cursory observation to perceive that this is far ...
... mind on brain holds through all the orders of animated nature , why is not the brain in the lower tribes always proportioned to the amount of mind manifested by them ? It requires but a cursory observation to perceive that this is far ...
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... mind , and improve in it the love of truth . But that such is not the condition of our author's mind , has been elsewhere shewn . Does he know that there is not , in the insects he has mentioned , a perfect correspondence between ...
... mind , and improve in it the love of truth . But that such is not the condition of our author's mind , has been elsewhere shewn . Does he know that there is not , in the insects he has mentioned , a perfect correspondence between ...
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... mind sees things in so very different a manner , and if the things seen re- main unchanged and unchangeable , must not the mind or its medium of vision be altered ? But what has made this altera- tion ? I reply , the progress , the ...
... mind sees things in so very different a manner , and if the things seen re- main unchanged and unchangeable , must not the mind or its medium of vision be altered ? But what has made this altera- tion ? I reply , the progress , the ...
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done by many , that phrenologists believe matter to be mind . About as logical would it be , to say that philosophers believe the conductor to be the electric fluid . The mind itself remains as much a mystery as ever . We have but ...
done by many , that phrenologists believe matter to be mind . About as logical would it be , to say that philosophers believe the conductor to be the electric fluid . The mind itself remains as much a mystery as ever . We have but ...
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