Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, Vol. 128: For July, 1868-October, 1868
As showing how far the beliefs of the understanding, the per ceptions of the senses, and the delusions of the i111agi11ation may be confounded, the subject belongs not only to theology and moral and political science, but to physiology, in its original and proper use, as embracing our whole nature; and the facts presented may help to conclusions relating to what is justly regarded as the great mystery of our being - the connexion between the body and the mind.' (vol. I. P. Viii.)
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