Multilateral Development Banks: Financial Condition of the African Development Bank: Briefing Report to the Chairman, Committee on the Budget

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ...the mind to the organ which is moved; and that, inytholiegiclal neurologist begins by attributing to the in case of perception, the_ existence and qualities of the nerves nearly all the fimctions of other tissues and external object are made known to us by means of organs of the entire economy, and upon this assump Species, or phantasms, or images, which are present to tion builds as m any, sepa1'a.te and distinct anatomies of 1;the mind in the sensoriuni; he is apt to conclude that the nerves will suit his thebry, in direct opposition the intercourse between mind and matter is m_uch less 2 _to every rule ' of experimental science; and, as if he mysterious than he had supposed; and that, although intended to travesty certainty itself, he calls these figthese exp1'essions,1nay not convey to him any very dis-5 1l1Ql1lS of his i1nag'iiiat.ioii, ph.ysi:: i-l, reflex, definite as the ordinary ray, mathematics, Euclid, etc. A learn ed professor announced nuinerous substrata in the brain for many phenomena, among which he enumerates the desire for medical skill, religion, patriotism, honor, truth; these strata-may be dislocated, etc. The ancient philosophy of final causes reigned in the civilized world until the times of Bacon and Newton, when experience began to diverge from the beaten track, and taking an independent course, founded the experimental sciences, including medicine, without di rect aid from speculative or metaphysical philosophy. Every evolution of science is in a straight line. Hitherto philosophy has moved in a circle. representationalism of Aristotle s philosophy is, however, clearer, more simple, and more probable than that of modern physiologists; but with all...