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CONTENTS. 



MEMORIAL SKETCH. 



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I. Early Life ... ... ... ... ... .•• 4 



IL A Student's Preparation ... ... ... ^3 



in. Physiology and Religious Philosophy ... ... 3^ 



IV. The Correlation of the Vital and Physical Forces 40 



V. Determinism and Self-Direction ... ... ... 54 



VL Home Life at Fifty Years ... ... ... 69 



VIL Deep-Sea Researches ... ... ... ... ••• 88 



Vin. Darwinism in England ... ... ... ... 105 



IX. Characteristics ... ... ... .•• ••• i'3 



ESSAYS. 



L The Method and Aim of the Study of Physiology 



(1838) ... ... ... ... ... ••• 155 



IL The Brain and its Physiology (1846) ... ... 159 



III. The Automatic Execution of Voluntary Movements 



(1850) ... ... ••• ... ••• ••• ^64 



IV. The Influence of Suggestion in modifying and 



directing Muscular Movement, independently of 

 Volition {1852) ... ... ... ... ... 169 



V. The Phasis of Force (1S57) ... ... ... ... I73 



VI. Man the Interpreter of Nature. Presidential Ad- 

 dress at the British Association, Brighton, 1S72 185 



VII. The Psychology of Belief (1873) ... ... 2U 



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