William James

inferior sort. You get, in short, a materialistic universe, in which only the tough-minded find themselves congenially at home.

The eye is blind, the ear deaf, the hand insensible and motionless. And conversely, if the brain be injured, consciousness is abolished or altered, even although every other organ in the body be ready to play its normal part.

spiritualist and the associationist must both be 'cerebralists,'

mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.

The performances of animal instinct seem semi-automatic, and the reflex acts of self-preservation certainly are so.

same ends at which the animals' consciousness,

they resemble intelligent acts

remain idiotically pressing their faces against its opposite sides