Date: April, 1871

"His belief in Mahomet, in the Koran, and in the sufficiency of the Koran, came to him probably in spontaneous rushes of emotion; there may have been little vestiges of argument floating here and there, but they did not justify the strength of the emotion, still less did they create it, and they ...

— Bagehot, William (1826-1877)

Date: 1872

"He who gives way to violent gestures will increase his rage: he who does not control the signs of fear will experience fear in a greater degree; and he who remains passive when overwhelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering elasticity of mind."

— Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)

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)

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

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