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MR. SPALDING in his critique on Maudsley's “Physiology of Mind” (NATURE, vol. xiv. p. 541), while admitting that “the dependence of consciousness on nervous organisation, seemed,” by the science of nerve physiology, “to be fairly established,” stated that the difficulty of conceiving how consciousness stood related to the material organism, was a difficulty which had not yet been overcome.
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DUNCAN, W. Mind and Matter. Nature 15, 78–79 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/015078c0
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