The testimony of the teeth to man's place in nature : with other essays on the doctrine of evolution / by F. H. Balkwill.

  • Balkwill, Francis Hancock.
Date:
1893
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Credit: The testimony of the teeth to man's place in nature : with other essays on the doctrine of evolution / by F. H. Balkwill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. ON PERCEPTION. Slight summary of theories of perception—Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Malebranche, Kant, Berkely, Reid, Browne, Gall, Spurzheim, Combe—Definition of Perception, Classification of states of conscious- ness, Hobbes—Definitions of will, anxiety, effort, difficulty, fatigue, success, failure, conception, sensa- tion, time, space, motion, substance, perception, evidence, attention, words, purpose, truth — The external world—The perceptions through the senses and combination of muscular actions—Possibility of error CHAPTER II. HUMAN AND BRUTE INTELLIGENCE. Reasons why writers on Instinct and Reason generally contrast, instead of compare, human and brute intelli- gence—Development of intelligence following lines of inheritance—Increment in man following the use of implements, articulate language and reflection— Physiological laws more nearly allied to habits of action than Chemistry or Physics—Co-ordination of perceptive and active organs—Sympathy of associa- tion—Variation of business in man parallel to varia- tion of species in brutes