This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ... been construed as attempts at a compromise, as bases for a future reconciliation between materialism and idealism in psychology. The first of these is Mr. Lewes's view of the relation between objective and subjective; the second is his peculiar conception of " the general mind," as a sort of formula for the collective ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ... been construed as attempts at a compromise, as bases for a future reconciliation between materialism and idealism in psychology. The first of these is Mr. Lewes's view of the relation between objective and subjective; the second is his peculiar conception of " the general mind," as a sort of formula for the collective action of the social medium. Extreme materialism, laying an exclusive stress on the fact of life being a function of the material organism, treats the phenomena of mental life as results of the activity of the nervous organisation. Heat is a mode of motion: thought is a mode of neural tremor. It is not easy to express clearly Mr. Lewes's position in this matter, but it is obvious that if by such a materialism as this is meant the view that thoughts and ideas are the effects, of which nervous currents are the causes, he will not accept the doctrine. "Who that had ever looked upon the pulpy mass of brain-substance, and the nervous cords connecting it with the organs, could resist the shock of incredulity on hearing that all we knew of passion, intellect, and will, was nothing more than molecular change in this pulpy mass? Who that had ever seen a nerve-cell could be patient on being told that thought was a property of such cells, as gravitation was a property of matter V'1 Nor will Mr. Lewes for a moment allow that particular functions can be with any exactness localised in particular portions of the nervous system. "I can never read without a smile2 the confident statements which credit certain nerve-cells with the power of transforming impressions into sensations, and other cells with the power of transforming these sensations into ideas, which assign Volition to one centre, Sensation to another, Perception to a third, and...
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