Esoteric anthropology / by T.L. Nichols.

  • Nichols, Thomas Low, 1815-1901.
Date:
1853
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Credit: Esoteric anthropology / by T.L. Nichols. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to man, are found in the upper portion. > Generally the forehead is intellectual; the top of the head, moral and religious ; the side, worldly ; the lower, passional and selfish. The lower organs connect us with the phys- ical, the higher with the spiritual; and all acting together make up a harmonious being. The outer grey matter of the brain is composed of cells of microscopic minuteness; the white matter con- sists of tubes, filled with a still softer substance. All these cells, tubes, etc., are of incomprehensible minute- ness. The brain, as the true center of life, and the special residence of the soul, holds constant communication with every part of the body, and through the five senses with the external world. A pair of olfactory nerves, distributed over the lining membrane of the nose, carries to the center of the brain an impression of odors ; the optic nerves, expanded upon the internal chamber of the eye, are impressed with pictures of objects ; the auditory nerve, curiously extended through the appara- tus of hearing, receives and conveys impressions of sound; the gustatory nerves give us all ideas of savors ; and nerves of sensation or touch go off to every portion of the body, especially to the whole surface and its more sensitive portions. Nerves of motion are also sent off in pairs from the brain and spinal cord to every muscle in the body. The distribution of nervous fibers is as minute as that of the blood-vessels ; and if we reckon the nerves of organic life, it is much more so. Yet the nerves are everywhere nourished by the blood, as the blood is everywhere controlled b}r the nerves. Blood is formed