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tain Intellectual and Volitional Operations ; for it seems 

 improbable that even such a lai-ge division of a Cerebral 

 Hemisphere as the Anterior Lobe has a distinct set of 

 functions peculiar to itself. The division into ' lobes ' is, 

 in the main, an entirely artificial one, and the grey matter 

 of the anterior region is, as we have seen, intimately 

 related to the grey matter of the middle and posterior 

 parts of the Hemispheres; so that, just as our psychical 

 nature consists of one great complicated but unbroken 

 network in which are bound together Sensations, Percep- 

 tions, Judgments, Emotions, and Volitions, so is the 

 physical organ corresponding to these also represented by 

 the most complicated and intricate network of nerve-cells 

 and nerve-fibres, mutually bound together and brought 

 into functional relation with one another. Whilst, there- 

 fore, it may truly be said that the Anterior Lobes are 

 always concerned in the carrying on of Intellectual and 

 Volitional Operations of the same nature, they may be 

 mainly instrumental in some functions, and they may take 

 part, to a minor degree, in the execution of certain other 

 Mental Operations depending more especially upon the 

 functional activity of different parts — the Parietal, the Tem- 

 poral, or the Occipital Lobes, singly or in combination. 



Perception, Intellect, Emotion, and Volition are so 

 intimately associated with one another in our ordinary 

 mental processes that, if we were even to attempt a defi- 

 nite mapping out of their territories, so as to allot a 

 separate province in the Cerebral Hemispheres for each of 

 these great divisions of Mind, we should probably fall into 

 a grievous error. In precisely those parts of the Cerebral 

 Hemispheres that are most concerned when we look upon 

 a fine painting or a fine piece of statuary, may we imagine 

 the emotions of admiration kindled, to which the sight 

 of these objects of art has given rise — however much the 



