Anatomy and physiology in character : an inquiry into the anatomical conformation and the physiology of some of its varieties; with a chapter on physiology in human affairs, in education, vocation, morals, and progress / by Furneaux Jordan.

  • Jordan Furneaux (John Furneaux), 1830?-1911.
Date:
1886
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Credit: Anatomy and physiology in character : an inquiry into the anatomical conformation and the physiology of some of its varieties; with a chapter on physiology in human affairs, in education, vocation, morals, and progress / by Furneaux Jordan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. Chapter I.—Physiology in Human Affairs. P*OE. Mankind a collection of nerve units 1 Life a succession of nerve incidents ..... 1 Nerve and the outer world 1 Nerve and the sciences and arts 2 Nerve in individuals, in races, classes, parties, faiths . . 5 Physiological jokes and serious writers 8 Heads of Shakspere and the Hanoverian Georges . . 9 Mill, Carlyle, Dickens, Eliot, and physiology . . .10 The educational artist in physiology 11 Inheritance and education 11 Nerve and vocation 14 Nerve and toil 15 Nerve and progress 17 Nerve actions run together 19 Nerve and circumstance, marriage 20 Progress and effective nerve 21 Nerve, circumstance, education 22 Intellectual nerve leads 23 Progress, truths, and nerve 25 How progress ascertained 26 Progress, science, and art 29 Nerve and morality Immorality of anti-vivisectionism 33 Nature of morality Religion, morality, supernaturalism 39 Supernaturalisms have hindered progress . . . .44 Brain or nerve and man 4 g “ Materialism ” and “ coldness ” 47 Poetry of future