 | 1881 - 440 pages
...changes which take place automatically in the organism ; and that. to take an extreme Illustration, the feeling we call volition is not the cause of a...the brain which is the immediate cause of that act." It is easy to see how the materialist comes to this view. He must maintain the continuity and independence... | |
 | William Taylor (of Windermere.) - 1881 - 232 pages
...been woven for him by molecular motions in the organism and nervous apparatus. For, as Huxley says, " the feeling we call volition is not the cause of a...the brain which is the immediate cause of that act." Thus our feeling or consciousness 'of volition is only a mere symbol of a material modification in... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1881 - 888 pages
...feeling we call Volition is not the cause of the voluntary act, but the " symbol in consciousness " of that state of the Brain which is the immediate cause of that act (like the blowing of the steam-whistle, which signals, but does not cause, the starting of the locomotive),... | |
 | Borden Parker Bowne - 1882 - 568 pages
...state can affect any physical state, and adds, It follows " that, to take an extreme illustration, the feeling we call volition is not the cause of a...the brain which is the immediate cause of that act." The general view has been wrought out at great length by Mr. Spencer in his " Principles of Psychology,"... | |
 | James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - 1882 - 784 pages
...consciousness in us, as in them, are immediately caused by molecular changes of the brainsubstance. . . . The feeling we call volition is not the cause of a...the brain which is the immediate cause of that act." It is surely clear that " we have as much reason for regarding the modes of motion of the nervous system... | |
 | 1882 - 820 pages
...changes which take place automatically in the organism ; and that, to take an extreme illustration, the feeling we call volition is not the cause of a...act, but the symbol of that state of the brain which , the immediate cause of that act." It is easy to see how the materialist comes to this view, lie must... | |
 | Borden Parker Bowne - 1882 - 580 pages
...state can affect any physical state, and adds, It follows " that, to take an ex-\ treme illustration, the feeling we call volition is not the cause of a voluntary act, but the symbol of that state of ihej brain which is the immediate cause of that act." The general view has been wrought out at great... | |
 | Constance Caroline W. Naden - 1883 - 92 pages
...consciousness in us, as in them, are immediately caused by molecular changes of the brainsubstance. . . . The feeling we call volition is not the cause of a...the brain which is the immediate cause of that act.' It is surely clear that ' we have as much reason for regarding the modes of motion of the nervous system... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1883 - 816 pages
...feeling we call Volition is uot the cause of the voluntary act, but the " symbol in consciousness " of that state of the Brain which is the immediate cause of that act (like the blowing of the steam-whistle, which signals, but does not cause, the starting of the locomotive),... | |
 | Morton Prince - 1885 - 200 pages
...changes which take place automatically in the organism : and that to take an extreme illustration, the feeling we call volition is not the cause of a...the brain which is the immediate cause of that act." 2 I must be pardoned if I dissent from so distinguished a writer. I cannot agree with the statement... | |
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... the feeling we call volition is not the cause of a voluntary act, but the symbol of that state of the brain which is the immediate cause of that act. 
