Faith-healing and Christian Science / by Alice Feilding.

  • Feilding, Alice.
Date:
1899
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    higher nervous levels superimposed; each higher level growing out of the one next below it, and the highest constituting the anatomical substratum of mind. Thus, re- ferring again to one limited patch of tissue, with its nervous system (HBCD), we must suppose a higher arc, BFGC, to develop in connection with it, constituting the next highest level ; and again, that from this last, a yet higher arc, FGH1, is developed, con- stituting the highest level (for we may, for convenience, limit the nervous levels to three). On this hypothesis HI constitutes the physical basis of mind ; and whatever sensations are felt in connection with our limited patch of tissue, and whatever dynamical effects are produced in it, as a result of mental action, will be produced through HI. According to this hypothesis, all the non-nervous parts of the body are provided with a similar nervous apparatus, all of them being thus definitely represented in the cortex, i.e. every minute part of the body has a definite part of the cortex belonging to it, through which it feels, and through which, moreover, it can be dynamically affected.’