 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1866 - 352 pages
...possesses, of organizing conscious actions into more or less unconscious, or reflex, operations. It may be laid down as a rule, that, if any two mental states...up the other, and that whether we desire it or not. The object of intellectual education is to create such indissoluble associations of our ideas of things,... | |
 | 1873 - 752 pages
...and voices long silent sound once more in our ears like a magic melody. We are told by physiologists that ' if any two mental states be called up together...and vividness, the subsequent production of the one will suffice to call up the other, whether we desire it or not.' But this law sometimes fails us when... | |
 | 1873 - 756 pages
...and voices long silent sound once more in our ears like a magic melody. We are told by physiologists that ' if any two mental states be called up together...and vividness, the subsequent production of the one will suffice to call up the other, whether we desire it or not.' But this law sometimes fails us when... | |
 | I. P. Hughlings - 1869 - 104 pages
...the re-excitement of the sensation next after or next before it in order of time. In other words, " if any two mental states be called up together, or...frequency and vividness, the subsequent production of one of them will suffice to call up the other, and that whether we desire it or not."* 10. Of those... | |
 | I P. Hughlings - 1869 - 112 pages
...the re-excitement of the sensation next after or next before it in order of time. In other words, " if any two mental states be called up together, or...frequency and vividness, the subsequent production of one of them will suffice to call up the other, and that whether we desire it or not."* 10. Of those... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley, William Jay Youmans - 1869 - 436 pages
...possesses, of organizing conscious actions into more or less unconscious, or reflex, operations. It may be laid down as a rule, that, if any two mental states bo called up together, or in succession, with due frequency and vividness, the subsequent production... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1872 - 404 pages
...Intellect,' 2nd edit. 1864, p. 832. Prof. Huxley remarks (' Elementary Lessons in Physiology,' 5th edit. 1872, p. 306), " It may be laid down as a rule, that,...together, or in succession, with due frequency and vivid" ness, the subsequent production of the one of them will suffice to call " up the other, and... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1872 - 438 pages
...possesses, of organizing' conscious actions into more or less unconscious, or reflex, operations. It may be laid down as a rule, that if / any two mental states be called up together, or in succes- 3 sion, with due frequency and vividness, the subsequent production of the one of them will... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1873 - 412 pages
...Intellect,' 2nd edit. 1864, p. 332. Prof. Huxley remarks (' Elementary Lessons in Physiology,' 5th edit. 1872, p. 306), " It may be laid down as a rule, that, if any two mental stales " be called up together, or in succession, with clue frequency and vivid" ness, the subsequent... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley, William Jay Youmans - 1878 - 508 pages
...organizing conscious actions into more or less unconscious, or reflex, operations. It may be laid dovvn as a rule that, if any two mental states be called...up the other, and that whether we desire it or not. The object of intellectual education is to create such indissoluble associations of our ideas of things,... | |
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The possibility of all education (of which military drill is only one particular form) is based upon the existence of this power which the nervous system possesses, of organizing conscious actions into more or less unconscious, or reflex, operations.... 
