“It behooves us to clearly realize, as the broad facts which have most
wide-reaching consequences in mental physiology and pathology, that
all parts of the body, the highest and the lowest, have a sympathy
with one another more intelligent than conscious intelligence can yet,
or perhaps ever will, conceive; that there is not an organic motion,
visible or invisible, sensible or insensible, ministrant to the
noblest or to the most humble purposes, which does not work its
appointed effect in the complex recesses of the mind, _and that the
mind, as the crowning achievement of organization, and the
consummation and outcome of all its energies, really comprehends the
bodily life_.”—MAWDESLEY, _Body and Mind_.
“It is an indisputable truth that what we call the material world is
only known to us under the forms of the ideal world, and, as Descartes
tells us, our knowledge of the soul is more intimate and certain than
our knowledge of the body.”—HUXLEY.