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the ordinary sense of the term, therefore^ corresponds 

 only to a fractional part of nerve-activities in gene- 

 ral, there is, again, the very best reason for believ- 

 ing that Consciousness, so far from being co-exten- 



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limited to a comparatively small portion of what 

 may be rightly ranged under this category. Many truly 

 mental phenomena never reveal themselves in con- 

 sciousness at all, and the roots of these strike far and 

 wide; so that, instead of accepting the popular view, 

 that the Brain is the organ of Mind, I believe it would 

 be nearer the truth to look upon the whole Nervous 



and peculiart System as the organ of Mind — a doctrine which has 



already been taught by Mr. G. H. Lewes and others. 

 The Brain, it is true, is its principal organ, whilst Gon- 



dii ng is thebi 



'^ui genem 



\ by the actic sciousness or Feeling ^ is probably only attendant upon 

 lin certain paf the activity of quite a limited portion of this 2. And, 



^ Not using these words, however, in the sense in which they are 



tal ph^^'^^ employed by Mr. Lewes, as has been explained in an article on "^Sensa- 



, tion and Perception ' in Nature, vol. i. Nos. 8 and 12. 



^Ti by e^cn p ■^" 2 q^ ^j^jg subject we have said elsewhere (article on ' Conscious- 



:elings exist in ness," 'Journal of Mental Science,' January 1870, p. 522) :— ' Mind is 



1 rough an iii^* generally supposed to be constituted by our conscious states or nerve- 



and inferior bei^r' actions only ; but as these conscious states are themselves only the last 



iliar structure'^. terms of a series of molecular actions taking place in ganglionic and 



I'shed belief' ^ other nerve-tissue, we now simply maintain that the components and 



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not the resultant alone ought to be considered as elements entering into 

 the composition of mind. And, similarly, we would make the sum 

 total of the seats of these molecular changes— the whole Nervous Sys- 

 tem -rather than the seats of the resulting conscious states alone, con- 

 stitute the organ of Mind as now understood.' And again, in Nature 

 (vol. i. No. 12, p. 3x1) ;—' Cognition or intellectual action may take 



