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portant ; and we happen to know that several intelligent psycho- 

 logists are well prepared to receive it, as fixing and defining views 

 which had been previously floating in their own minds. It seems, 

 indeed, to have been glimpsed at by the late Mr. James Mill, in 

 his valuable " Analysis of the Human Mind ; " his deficiency 

 consisting in connecting the feeling too much with the sensation, 

 rather than with the intellectual idea. We should be doing in- 

 justice to that very painstaking anatomist, Mr. Swan, were we not 

 to state that, on referring to his general summary of his views of 

 the oftices of the nervous centres, we find a very near coincidence 

 with the leading features of our own doctrines regarding the re- 

 lative ofiices of the sensory ganglia and the cerebrum — doctrines, 

 indeed, to which it would be easy to point out approaches in the 

 writings of many previous physiologists, to whose authority we 

 might refer in support of our own. 



