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THE present edition of Dr. Child's work is by no means a mere reprint of the last. It has undergone considerable modifications, chiefly in the form of additions, which will tend to make it more acceptable to a large class of readers. There is an almost entirely new essay on “Some Aspects of the Theory of Evolution,” in which he endeavours to show how this theory is related to religious belief. He believes its proper meaning and tendency to have been much misunderstood; that far from being an “atheistical” conception, it is in reality only the scientific form of natural religion. The subject of “Physiological Experimentation on Animals” is also considered, whilst the last and longest essay, also new, is entitled “Physiological Psychology,” in which he endeavours to make known to persons whose chief interest is in psychological rather than physiological science, all the chief points in the anatomy of the nervous system, necessary to be understood before he could explain, as he also attempts to do, the principal physiological conclusions which have been arrived at concerning brain action and mind.
Essays on Physiological Subjects.
By Gilbert W. Child. Second edition, with Additions; pp. 293. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1869.)
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Essays on Physiological Subjects . Nature 1, 503 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/001503b0
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