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    Life And Mind. 2v Principles Of Psycholo...

    ^^ f ^ t ^^^^^^ sr ^ ' ^^^ evervWt of the elemental tissue possesses in some degree . ThX between Twch—which is the most general and elementary form of sensibility—and Assimilation—which is the most general and elementaly form of vitality—there is an intimate connection : — _ _ ^ ot only doea ^ similation necessarily presuppose touch ; but , among the sinrples protozoa touch and assimilation are to a considerable extent coextensive : the tactual surfed and the digestive surface are the same . The Amceba , a structureless speck of feuThlSng no constant form , sends out , in this or that direction prolongations of ts Stance . One of these prolongations meeting , vith , and attaching itself to some relatively fixed object , becomes a temporary limb by which the body of the creature is drawn forward ; but if this prolongation meets with some relatively small portion of organic matter , it gradually expands its extremity round tins , gradually contract * and gradually draws the nutritive morsel into the mass of the body , which collapses round it and presently dissolves it . That is to say , the same portion of tissue is at once arm , hand , mouth and stomach—is at once a sensory , motor , and digestive oigan —shows us the tactual and assirnilatory functions united in one . And if wo assume as we may fairly do , that the stimulus which causes the contraction of this protruded part when its extremity touches assimilable matter , arises from the chemical relation between the two—is caused by a commencing absorption of the assimilable matter , an incipient digestion of it—we shall see a still closer relation between the primordial sense and the primordial vegetable function . He analyses taste , smell , sight , and hearing in the same way , winding up with the remark , that there is not a little reason to think that all torms of sensibility to external stimuli are , in their nascent shapes , nothing but the modifications which those stimuli produce in that duplex process of assimilation and oxidation which constitutes the primordial life—a view which receives further confirmation in a subsequent part of the work , where Mr . Spencer shows how all other impressions have to be translated into tactual impressions before their meanings can be known , The reader must seek this for himself . One extract from the summary is all we can find room for : — , Thus , it will be manifest , that from the lowest to the highest forms of life , the increasing adjustment of inner to outer relations , is , if rightly understood , one indivisible progression . Just as , out of the homogeneous tissue with which every organism commences , there arises by one continuous process of differentiation and integration , a congeries of organs performing separate functions , but which remain throughout mutually dependent , and indeed grow more mutually dependent ; so , the correspondence between the phenomena going on inside of the organMin and those going on outside of it , beginning , as it does , wite some simple homogeneous correspondence between internal and external affinities , gradually becomes differentiated into various orders of correspondences , which are constantly more and more subdivided , but which nevertheless maintain a reciprocity of aid that grows ever greater as the progression advances . The two professions are in truth parts of the same progression . Not to dwell upon the facts which imply that the primordial tissue is endowed throughout with the several forms of irritability in which the senses originate , and that the organs of sense arise , like all otber organs , by the differentiation of this primordial tissue ; not to dwell upon the fact that the impressions received by these senses form the raw materials of intelligence , which arises by combination of them , and must therefore conform to their law of evolution ; not to dwell upon the fact that intelligence advances part passu with the advance of the nervous system , and that the nervous system obeys the same law ot development as the other systems ; not to dwell upon these facts , it is sufficiently manifest , that as the progress of organization and the progress of the correspondence between the organism and its environment , are but different aspects of the evolution of Life in general , they cannot fail to harmonize . The final section of the work treats of Intelligence , Will , Memory , the Feelings , & c . Although full of valuable mutter , it is the least satisfactory portion less perfect in its exposition , less thoroughl y worked out as a scheme . Not to mention many points of detail which might be questioned , there is the strange omission of the Moral Sentiments altogether . True , the work is not a treatise on Psychology ; it pretends to furnish no more than principles ; nevertheless , the Moral Sentiments deserve as large a place in such an exposition as Will or Reason can lay claim to . In the opening of our criticism on Herbert Spencer , we compared Ins work to that of Schuam ; and we may close it with a similar remark : just as the theory of Schuam has been modified by successors , who see reason to limit the cell theory to embryonal cells , and in all subsequent stages recognise cells , tubes , fibres as tlie origins of tissues ; so also must Herbert Spencer ' s successors modify his theory by the introduction of Pleasure and Pain as Primordial elements , and from them tho genesis of the Moral Sentiments .

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    them , and laid siege to Tournai , even then a powerful city . JBut it could not withstand the conqueror long ; he took it , and gave it up to pillage . " " Our French readers (?) might , perhaps , accuse us of neglect of their glory , it we omitted all notice of the surrender of Vienna to the arms and fortunes of Napoleon ; but as there was not even the semblance of either a siege or resistance , the details of the affair do not fall -within our plan . " . , ¦ Possibly these apocryphal " French readers '» may think it a greater neglect that no mention is made of the last siege of Rome , or even of that of Antwerp . On the other hand , twenty pages are devoted to the liberation " of Jerusalem by the Cru-aders , ami nearly double that space to tlie fate of Antioeh at the same period . The sieges of Naples are prefaced by ! the very authentic information that the original name of the city was derive 1 from " the shvn Parthenope , " who , " mortall y chagrined at not bein " < T able to charm Ulysses to his destruction , drowned herself from pure ^ nite " " If her chagrin were mortal , it does seem to have been very ¦ superfluous on the part of the damsel to take the trouble to drown herself , even allowing for the temptation to a woman in the gratification of" pare spite . But Mr Robson acknowledges his partiality for fiction , provided the " colouring" be of a nature "to make virtue more attractive ana vice more ^ Inlm ' account of the early sieges of Borne , notwithstandin g our convlctl o ^ that s ^ rd ^^ n "" - ^ " ° - " ' - : s of thtl £ e ( by Porsenni ) are deeded apocryphal ; and yet , who wil dare to tell us that th ! well ^ authenticated accounts of the vices of the declining empire are equally iU After Ve thS ToS £ n ' of faith , Mr . ttobson can hardly expect that « a « tmW of the military art" will turn with much confidence to his pages . He will natui al ^ fe aXat , to reader the « bitter draught » less unpaatable theiutlior may have -tinged the vessel ' s brim with juicos sweet , aoie , tne am ^^ ^^ ^ absinthia tetra medente 8 Qunm dare conantur , prius of as pocula circum . Contingunt mellis dulci flavoque liquore , Ut puerorum GBtas improvda ludificetur , However if Mr ^ RXon " had Intended to write merely for the amusemmmmmmM 3333 s 33 ES 3 £ « s = £ ai the Giant-killer .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 3, 1855, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03111855/page/19/