The Relation of Science and Religion.pdf - Online Christian Library

322 APPENDIX.Add to these considerations the evidence as to the singularintelligence shown by ants, and the theory whichmeasures intellect by brain structure is placed at agreat disadvantage. Whether science may not erelong point to some theory of mind connected withanimal existence must be matter of uncertainty. If,however, the easy and familiar operations of our ownintelligence are analyzed and classified; and if a statementof the ascertained functions of the brain is laidalongside, it will appear that nothing known to us inthe action of brain, can supply a science of the operationsof the human mind.TEE LARGE SIZED OB MULTIPOLAR CELLS. Page 257.On the functions of the large sized cells, it seemsdesirable to add a few words as to the direction inwhich evidence as to their functions actually points.For this purpose, a further quotation is desirable, referringto the number of fibres or processes passingoff from these large cells, distinguishing those whichbranch out into a fine net-work, and those which passdirectly to a nerve fibre. "One at least of the processesof a multipolar nerve cell does not branch, butbecomes directly continuous with a nerve fibre, andhas been named the axial-cylinder process."-ProfessorTurner's Human Anatomy, i. 201. This taken withthe facts given in Lecture VII, seems to favor the conclusions,(1) that the large cell spreads nerve energythrough the tissue of the brain, while each has at leash