Man on his nature
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Man on his nature
(The Gifford lectures, Edinburgh 1937-8)
Cambridge University Press, 1963
2nd ed
- : pbk
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"First paperback edition 1963"--T.p. verso
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Originally published in 1940, and first reprinted as this second edition in 1951, this volume was written by the Nobel laureate Sir Charles Sherrington (1857-1952). To read this book is to share in wonder at the mystery of life, uncovered by a great scientist who was also a great lyrical writer. To read Sir Charles on the eye making itself (pp. 105-113) is to attend a miracle.
Table of Contents
- 1. Nature and tradition
- 2. The natural and superstition
- 3. Life in little
- 4. The wisdom of the body
- 5. Earth's reshuffling
- 6. A whole presupposed of its parts
- 7. The brain and its work
- 8. The organ of liaison
- 9. Brain collaborates with psyche
- 10. Earth's alchemy
- 11. Two ways of one mind
- 12. Altruism
- Index.
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