Phreno-geology: the progressive creation of man, indicated by natural history, and confirmed by discoveries which connect the organization and functions of the brain with the successive geological periods . external senses, but the re-flectives do not, except indirectly, through the perceptivesand the conscious centre. Thus, the optic nerve conveysimpressions to Color, and Color modifies and transmitsthe impressions to Consciousness; and from Conscious-ness the impression reaches the reflectives and the im-pulsives, which send to Consciousness an impression inreturn. It will, however, be seen
Phreno-geology: the progressive creation of man, indicated by natural history, and confirmed by discoveries which connect the organization and functions of the brain with the successive geological periods . external senses, but the re-flectives do not, except indirectly, through the perceptivesand the conscious centre. Thus, the optic nerve conveysimpressions to Color, and Color modifies and transmitsthe impressions to Consciousness; and from Conscious-ness the impression reaches the reflectives and the im-pulsives, which send to Consciousness an impression inreturn. It will, however, be seen that, in a certain sense,all the organs are sometimes reflective in their operation;that is, they receive impressions through Consciousness,and send them back again, modified and tinged by theirown peculiar character. It is difficult to fix a time when animals first neededthe reflectives. It would almost seem that some degreeof them was needed in the earliest stages of animal exist-ence. But if this is admitted, then we can still insistthat they have been gradually increasing in capacity tothe present time, and are still advancing to new triumphs,as man approximates the goal of his ultimate The above engraving represents the order and the direction in which the organs of theDirective class were created. 1. This limited portion, which occupies the central and lowest part of the forehead,was the part first created; and the other portions were added in the manner indicated bythe lines in the engraving. 2. This part was created between the protozoic period and the eocene period. 3. This was added during the tertiary period, cotemporaneously with Constructivenesaand Acquisitiveness. 4. This part includes the calculating, mathematical, and philosophical powers, and wascreated last. 124 PHRENO-GEOLOGY. SECTION XIV. — CONCENTRATION. The causes that produced man are all now in opera-tion, creating and decomposing with the same energy asever. Man is changing still. Even withi
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