"Observing, then, that the emporium or brain itself reflects the entire product of all the senses by an impressible power, which, as by a looking-glass, exactly duplicated the external recognizers, or sense apparatus or limbs, it was inferred that that principle of duplication must be the true and exact counterpart to evergency."
— Battye, Richard Fawcett
Author
Place of Publication
Lonson
Publisher
Trubner
Date
1877
Metaphor
"Observing, then, that the emporium or brain itself reflects the entire product of all the senses by an impressible power, which, as by a looking-glass, exactly duplicated the external recognizers, or sense apparatus or limbs, it was inferred that that principle of duplication must be the true and exact counterpart to evergency."
Metaphor in Context
Observing, then, that the emporium or brain itself reflects the entire product of all the senses by an impressible power, which, as by a looking-glass, exactly duplicated the external recognizers, or sense apparatus or limbs, it was inferred that that principle of duplication must be the true and exact counterpart to evergency; and as a consequence the principle of conscious reflexion, or re-duplication of the senses in the form of consciousness--we say, as a true counterpart to evergency--the brain function which stamps itself by the power or principle of consciousness, is correctly counterparted by the principle of invergency.
(p. 136)
(p. 136)
Provenance
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Citation
Richard Fawcett Battye, What is vital force?: or, A short and comprehensive sketch, including vital physics, animal morphology, and epidemics; to which is added an appendix upon geology: Is the detrital theory of geology tenable? London: Trübner, 1877. <:Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
06/06/2010
