...last result, to the faculty of sensation." [Cabanis, Rapports du Physique et du Moral de V homtne, vol. i, p., 124.] Recently Dr. WA Hammond, of New...declares it to be, (the temple of the mind or spirit which in it dwells, awaiting a life to come,) and what science shows it to be, a living organism, under...

...or not. He opens his battery on me as follows : "We may discuss the question of whether the mind is a secretion of the brain as bile is a secretion of the liver as long as we choose, and gain nothing, for in the nature of things we cannot get physical evidence....

...Consciousness, then, says the materialist, must be looked on as merely a product, or a function, of matter,, a secretion of the brain as bile is a secretion of the liver; it is a -mere transitory phase of existence, entirely unreal as compared with the permanent ground...

...to-day to show that consciousness is no mere material functioning of structure. Mind is not a mere secretion of the brain as bile is a secretion of the liver. Such suicidal materialism is no longer accepted. But there is a sense in which consciousness may be...

...superfluous. So it would be if their principles were valid. If thought is actually a secretion or product of the brain, as bile is a secretion of the liver, then the case with the brain is the same as if we had two fully developed livers which, however, could not be...

...arisen. Consciousness 1» simply the name for the functioning of an organism. Not that the soul is a secretion of the brain, as bile Is a secretion of the liver; not that the mind is a function of the body in any such materialistic sense. But that mind or consciousness...

...and thus perfectly working mechanism! Man?—the highest of the mammalian vertebrates! Thought?— a secretion of the brain, as bile is a secretion of the liver! God?—an anthropomorphic personification of the physical world-process I 1 The soul?—- a convenient...

...quality of the mind. The brain and nervous systems are instruments of the mind, hence the mind is not a secretion of the brain as bile is a secretion of the liver. Dr. Thomson in his work, "Brain and Personality," compares the brain to a violin. The violin does not...

...qualities of animals." Nor does he " shrink from the implications even of the phrase that thought is a secretion of the brain as bile is a secretion of the liver." How, then, has the soul of man, as he reads its history, been evolved ? " By the moulding pressure...

...of supernaturalism, and who does not shrink from the implications even of the phrase that thought is a secretion of the brain as bile is a secretion of the liver, I assert as a biological fact that the moral law is as real and as external to man as the starry vault....