 Carpenter, in treating of the dependence of mental activity on the senses, says : " If it were possible for a human being to come into the world with a brain perfectly prepared to be the instrument of psychical operations, but with all the inlets of sense-impressions...  Annual Report - Sida 161efter Perkins School for the Blind - 1872Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1855 - 1026 sidor
...perfectly prepared to be the instrument of psychical operations, but with all the inlets to sensation closed, we have every reason to believe that the Mind...remain dormant, like a seed buried deep in the earth. The attentive study of cases in which there ia congenital deficiency of one or more sensations, makes... | |
 | George Jamieson - 1859 - 280 sidor
...perfectly prepared to be the instrument of psychical operations, but with all the inlets to sensation closed, we have every reason to believe that the mind...remain dormant, like a seed buried deep in the earth." The brain, in such case, like an instrument of music unused, would lie absolutely still, giving forth... | |
 | A.N. BELL, A.M., M.D. - 1860 - 340 sidor
...adapted to be the instrument of mental operations, but without nerves to transmit impressions, there is every reason to believe that the mind would remain dormant, like a seed buried deep in the earth. 45 T. The spinal marrow presides over many of the functions essential to life, yet it, like the brain,... | |
 | George Jamieson - 1872 - 472 sidor
...perfectly prepared to be the instrument of psychical operations, but with all the inlets to sensation closed, we have every reason to believe that the mind...remain dormant, like a seed buried deep in the earth." We would transpose the metaphor of our author, and say, that if no seed is sown, no plant can appear... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1874 - 774 sidor
...prepared to bo the instrument of Psychical operations, but with all the inlets to Sense-impressious closed, we have every reason to believe that the Mind...remain dormant, like a seed buried deep in the earth. The attentive study of cases in which there is congenital deficiency of one or more Sensations, makes... | |
 | Julia Ward Howe - 1876 - 150 sidor
...hinder our perceiving that a near approach to the miraculous was made by Dr. Howe when he caused the deeply hidden germ of Laura Bridgman's mind to grow...than those given to mankind, could avail to set free the imprisoned mind. And when but a single sense remains, through which the faculty of language may... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1877 - 626 sidor
...to the miraculous was made by Dr. Howe, when he caused the deeply hidden germ of Laura Bridgtnan's mind to grow into conscious intelligence, to put forth...than those given to mankind, could avail to set free the imprisoned mind. And when but a single sense remains, through which the faculty of language may... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1877 - 1372 sidor
...the instrument of psychical operations, but with all the inlets of sense-impressions closed, we havo every reason to believe that the mind would remain...than those given to mankind, could avail to set free the imprisoned mind. And when but a single sense remains, through which the faculty of language may... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1883 - 816 sidor
...a Brain perfectly prepared to bo the instrument of Psychical operations, but with all the inlets to Sense-impressions closed, we have every reason to...remain dormant, like a seed buried deep in the earth. The attentive) study of cases in which there is congenital deficiency of one or more Sensations, makes... | |
 | David Kay - 1888 - 388 sidor
...perfectly prepared to be the instrument of psychical operations, but with all the inlets to sensations closed, we have every reason to believe that the mind would remain dormant like a seed buried in the earth." — Dr. Carpenter. " That the powers of the understanding would for ever continue dormant... | |
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