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" 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... "
Animal Behaviour - Page 306
by Conwy Lloyd Morgan - 1900 - 344 pages
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The Methodist Magazine

Methodist Church - 1880 - 820 pages
...Professor Huxley's lecture " On the Hypothesis that Animals are Automata : " The consciousness of brutes would appear to be related to the mechanism of their...without any power of modifying that working as the steam whistle which accompanies the work of a locomotive engine is without influence upon its machinery....
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The American Naturalist, Volume 42

Biology - 1908 - 950 pages
...After a lucid analysis of the actions of animals lower than man, he says : "The consciousness of brutes would appear to be related to the mechanism of their...without any power of modifying that working as the steam whistle which accompanies the work of a locomotive engine is without influence upon its machinery....
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 27

Science - 1885 - 900 pages
...production of motion. The consciousness of brutes would appear to be related to the mechanism of their body as a collateral product of its working, and to be...without any power of modifying that working as the steam - whistle which accompanies the work of a locomotive-engine is without influence upon its machinery....
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The Living Age, Volume 124

1875 - 844 pages
...brain which form part of the series involved in the production of motion. The consciousness of brutes would appear to be related to the mechanism of their...the work of a locomotive engine is without influence upon its machinery. Their volition, if they have any, is an emotion indicative of physical changes,...
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The Christian Ambassador, Volume 15

Theology - 1877 - 398 pages
...Professor Huxley states the automatic theory in respect to brutes thus:—"The consciousness of brutes would appear to be related to the mechanism of their...as a collateral product of its working, and to be completely without any power of modifying that working, as the steam-whistle which accompanies the...
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The Realistic Assumptions of Modern Science Examined

Thomas Martin Herbert - Consciousness - 1879 - 480 pages
...consciousness (that of brutes, and later on that of men) is said to be related to the mechanism of the body ' simply as a collateral product of its working,' and to be ' completely without any power of modifying that working.' And thus the extraordinary conclusion is...
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The Realistic Assumptions of Modern Science Examined

Thomas Martin Herbert - Consciousness - 1879 - 512 pages
...consciousness (that of brutes, and later on that of men) is said to be related to the mechanism of the body ' simply as a collateral product of its working,' and to be ' completely without any power of modifying that working.' And thus the extraordinary conclusion is...
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Science and Culture, and Other Essays, Volume 32; Volume 964

Thomas Henry Huxley - Culture - 1881 - 372 pages
...brain which form part of the series involved in the production of motion. The consciousness of brutes would appear to be related to the mechanism of their...without any power of modifying that working as the steam -whistle which accompanies the work of a locomotive engine is without influence upon its machinery....
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Nature, Volume 25

Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1882 - 646 pages
...leads us to the conclusion that — " Consciousness would appear to be related to the mechanism of the body simply as a collateral product of its working,...the work of a locomotive engine is without influence upon its machinery." There can be no doubt that the logic by which this conclusion is reached is everywhere...
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The science of man

Charles Bray - 1883 - 352 pages
...but of this the Professor says there is no proof : he says, " The consciousness (of man as) of brutes would appear to be related to the mechanism of their...the work of a locomotive engine is without influence upon its machinery." The writer in the Examiner (Mr. Spalding), already quoted, says, " After all that...
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