Control of Body and MindGinn, 1908 - 267 páginas |
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... close network , and that it is through their aid that living beings think and feel and move . I have also learned that human nerves and cat nerves are very much alike , and that men and women , boys and girls , and animals of every size ...
... close network , and that it is through their aid that living beings think and feel and move . I have also learned that human nerves and cat nerves are very much alike , and that men and women , boys and girls , and animals of every size ...
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... brain from the skull . The explanation of the white and gray substance of the brain is given at the close of the tenth chapter . CHAPTER III BERTINO'S BRAIN The work which Dr. Beaumont did SERVICE FROM THE CEREBRUM 13.
... brain from the skull . The explanation of the white and gray substance of the brain is given at the close of the tenth chapter . CHAPTER III BERTINO'S BRAIN The work which Dr. Beaumont did SERVICE FROM THE CEREBRUM 13.
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... the meantime . Now study the record and know by the long pull and the short pull that there is close connection between brain fatigue and muscle fatigue . We see that a man may exercise his brain so 26 CONTROL OF BODY AND MIND.
... the meantime . Now study the record and know by the long pull and the short pull that there is close connection between brain fatigue and muscle fatigue . We see that a man may exercise his brain so 26 CONTROL OF BODY AND MIND.
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... the arm simply settles itself close to the desired food , presses up against it , surrounds it , and gradually that morsel has. THE AMOEBA AS IT MULTIPLIES Photograph taken November 27 , 1895. WHERE THE NERVOUS SYSTEM STARTS 4I.
... the arm simply settles itself close to the desired food , presses up against it , surrounds it , and gradually that morsel has. THE AMOEBA AS IT MULTIPLIES Photograph taken November 27 , 1895. WHERE THE NERVOUS SYSTEM STARTS 4I.
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... close above the backbone . In fact , there is a groove on the upper side of the backbone just deep enough to serve for a nerve canal in which the nerve tube rests . Slender nerves stretch from this tube to different parts of the body ...
... close above the backbone . In fact , there is a groove on the upper side of the backbone just deep enough to serve for a nerve canal in which the nerve tube rests . Slender nerves stretch from this tube to different parts of the body ...
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Página 225 - I won't count this time!" Well! he may not count it, and a kind Heaven may not count it; but it is being counted none the less. Down among his nerve-cells and fibres the molecules are counting it, registering and storing it up to be used against him when the next temptation comes. Nothing we ever do, is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.
Página 226 - Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning, to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation, in whatever pursuit he may have singled out.
Página 225 - Well! he may not count it, and a kind Heaven may not count it; but it is being counted none the less. Down among his nerve cells and fibers the molecules are counting it, registering and storing it up to be used against him when the next temptation comes.
Página 238 - Edinburgh ) from the market-place opposite, laboring under a terrible accident. The man, on trying to hook up a heavy piece of meat above his head, slipped, and the sharp hook penetrated his arm, so that he himself was suspended. On being examined, he was pale, almost pulseless, and expressed himself as suffering acute agony. The arm could not be moved without causing excessive pain, and in cutting off the sleeve he frequently cried out ; yet when the arm was exposed it was found to be quite uninjured,...
Página 225 - As we become permanent drunkards by so many separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work.
Página 195 - I said to the master of the house, "I will prove to you that my son can read through a wall. Will you lend me a book?" I was naturally conducted to the library in question, which I pretended now to see for the first time, and I laid my finger on a book. "Emile," I said to my son, "what is the name of this work?
Página 188 - On came the whirlwind — steel-gleams broke Like lightning through the rolling smoke ; The war was waked anew, Three hundred cannon-mouths roar'd loud, And from their throats, with flash and cloud, Their showers of iron threw.
Página 195 - But," he added, "had you asked the name of the book on the left, sir, I should have said Lamartine's Poetry. A little to the right of this row, I see Crebillon's works; below, two volumes of Fleury's Memoirs"; and my son thus named a dozen books before he stopped. The spectators had not said a word during this description, as they felt so amazed; but when the experiment had ended, all complimented us by clapping their hands.
Página 186 - For it appeared, that it had been the old man's custom, for .years, to walk up and down a passage of his house into which the kitchen door opened, and to read to himself with a loud voice, out of his favorite books.