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Date: 1874

Phenomena of the senses are as unlike the causes which set the mechanism of the body in motion, "as the sound of a repeater is unlike the pushing of the spring which gives rise to it"

— Huxley, Thomas H. (1825-1895)

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Date: 1874

The nervous system stands between consciousness and the external world, "as an interpreter who can talk with his fingers stands between a hidden speaker and a man who is stone deaf"

— Huxley, Thomas H. (1825-1895)

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Date: 1874

"Earth thus I stamp thy bosom rouse the earthquake from his den"

— Blake, William (1757-1827)

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Date: 1874

"The consciousness of brutes would appear to be related to the mechanism of their body simply as a collateral product of its working, and to be as completely without any power of modifying that working as the steam-whistle which accompanies the work of a locomotive engine is without influence upo...

— Huxley, Thomas H. (1825-1895)

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Date: Date Unknown

A nose of wax is a "true symbol of the mind"

— Peacock, Thomas Love (1785-1866)

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Date: 1876

"What art thou, Mind, that mirror'st things unseen, / Giv'st to the dead the smiles which erst they wore, / And lift'st the veil which fate hath cast between / Thee and the forms which are not, but have been?"

— Elliott, Ebenezer (1781-1849)

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Date: 1876

"His hands were raised on high-- / As, mirrored on his mystic mind, / Arose futurity"

— Hogg, James (1770-1835)

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Date: 1876

"'The enchantment works,' thought Merlin; 'this will do;/ I think the image on his soul is painted;' / And then the mirror suddenly withdrew"

— Moultrie, John (1799-1874)

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Date: 1877

"For in their bond of mutual recognition or brain-consciousness, the sense apparatus, in all, is external to the centre storehouse or emporium of consciousness."

— Battye, Richard Fawcett

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Date: 1877

"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 an...

— Battye, Richard Fawcett

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.