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EDUCATION OF THE CENTRAL

NERVOUS SYSTEM

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COPYRIGHT, 1896,

BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

ALUCATION YEPT

Norwood Press

J. S. Cushing & Co. - Berwick & Smith

Norwood Mass. U.S.A.

"In all the higher processes of the brain we must recognize that, in nervous material at all events, action determines structure, meaning by structure molecular arrangement and disposition." DR. M. FOSTER, F.R.S.

"Every cerebral element is subject to the educating influence of those sensory nerve fibres with which it is anatomically connected."

HERING.

"Just as muscular exercise causes an increased growth of muscular fibre, so regulated mental exercise must develop and strengthen the tissue of the brain."

DRS. M'KENDRICK AND SNODGRASS.

"The goal attained by the process of practice is simply the mechanization of movements which were originally dependent upon psychical antecedents. That must mean that mechanical, i.e. physiological, alterations are at the bottom of the whole matter."

WUNDT.

"Race, age, and previous training seem to have a marked effect in determining the extent and character of the reflex actions which the spinal cord is capable of carrying out."

DR. M. FOSTER, F.R.S.

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Everywhere where there is development later events are conditioned by earlier." HÖFFDING.

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