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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1854 Excerpt: ... THE BRAIN IN RELATION TO THE MIND. CHAPTER I. THE GRADUAL MODE OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE FACULTIES OF THE MIND. A Single letter is taken by the optic or auditory nerve to the sensory; and, by a voluntary act of the fibres of the voluntary tract, is fixed or impressed by them; and by this act, or by its several repetitions, becomes as indelibly implanted as if it had been written on paper. It can then be continued through particular fibres of the same voluntary tract to the muscles of the tongue and lips, to be spoken--or to those of the hand, to be written. When other letters have been learnt and impressed in the same manner, they can, through the voluntary tract, be combined into a word, and become fixed in this form in a similar way. When other words have been constructed, or taken already complete through the eye or ear, their meanings are acquired by pointing to any familiar objects they represent. When words and their meanings have been thus learnt, one can be chosen and adopted for another without pointing to any familiar object; and when such information has accumulated, one or more words can be made to represent ideas. When ideas have been multiplied, the process of thinking can be commenced on a larger scale, by which one idea is compared with another, and the result is either stored up in the mind, or written, or spoken. Every day furnishes fresh information: this is compared with the preceding results of thinking, and the stock of knowledge becomes enlarged or corrected. A great portion of it may remain fixed in the brain, but the result or meaning is preserved in the mind. The act of thinking may therefore be considered as a comparison of the ideas, and a judgment or determination for rejecting some of them, and retaining and combining the rest. The...
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