Date: 1874

"The soul stands related to the body as the bell of a clock to the works"

— Huxley, Thomas H. (1825-1895)

Date: 1874

Consciousness "answers to the sound which the bell gives out when struck"

— Huxley, Thomas H. (1825-1895)

Date: 1874

The brain evolves sensation as "an iron rod, when hammered, evolves heat"

— Huxley, Thomas H. (1825-1895)

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)

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)

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)