Christianity And Positivism a Series of Lectures to the Times On Natural Theol
Christianity And Positivism a Series of Lectures to the Times On Natural Theol
James Mccosh
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And this is the common sewer into which the finei forms, which may amuse refined minds for a time, must ultimately flow. They are expressed in the brief sentence of Cabanis, that " the brain secretes thought as the liver secretes bile. " Coming to our day, we find Vogt adopting this statement : " Thought stands in the same relation to the brain as bile to the liver. " Moleschott says that " thought is a motion of matter. " We may take, as represent- ative of this school, Biichner, whose work, "...Force and Matter, " has been translated into English, and circulated widely in Great Britain and America. No doubt his work is very superficial, but it is relished all the more by multitudes who do not wish to be troubled with deep philosophical discussions. BUCHNER. 189 And then he is clear and outspoken and dogmatic, uttering his dicta as if they could not be disputed. •* The soul is the product of a peculiar combination of matter. " — "In the same manner as the steam en- gine produces motion, so does the organic compli- cation of force-endowed materials produce, in the animal body, a sum of effects so interwoven as to become a unit, and is then by us called spirit.
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