An exposition of the fallacies of the materialistic theory of physiological psychology / by J.M. Winn.

  • Winn, James M. (James Michell), 1808-1900.
Date:
1894
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Credit: An exposition of the fallacies of the materialistic theory of physiological psychology / by J.M. Winn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    neighbourhood, says : — “ This discovery was fore- shadowed by Gall, but actually made by Broca ! ” One of the proofs of this discovery, he adds, is that when “electricity is applied to the brain of the living monkey or rabbit, the animal opens its mouth, and alternately obtrudes and retracts its tongue,” in its efforts, we suppose, to say—Don’t ! ! granting, of course, that the monkey and rabbit were endowed with the faculty of speech ! Dr. Andrew Wilson, in an article on “ The Old Phrenology and the New,” in the Gentlemans Magazine for January, 1879, says •—“Our new phrenology—for the word is perfectly explicit, as denoting a science of mind or brain—is gradually being built up from sure data and accurate experimentation ! ” * Another publication, Mind, established in 1877, has done its utmost to establish the pernicious doctrines of Physiological Psychology and Positivism. Never was there a greater misnomer than the title—Mind. It * It is greatly to be regretted that the Editors of some of the monthly journals afford such facility for scientific atheists to air their dangerous theories in popular publications. Their unscientific and unthinking readers are unable to detect the fallacy and sophistry of the writer's arguments, and their mischievous teaching becomes widely spread. The subtle sophistries of the materialistic school have done infinitely more harm than all the out- spoken blasphemy of Hyde Park stump orators.