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THE THEORY OF INDUCTION.
mediately by unconsciousness and soon afterwards
by death. Hence the existence of mind depends on
the healthy functioning of the brain."
There are no great nations of antiquity but have
fallen by the hand of time and ; England must join
them to complete the analogy of the ages. Like
them, she has grown from a birth-time of weakness
and tutelage to a day of manhood and supremacy ;
but she has to face her setting. Everything that
grows must also decay." [E.]
(d) "No coal can be found in that district; for if the
rock nearest the surface is Laurentian, the Carbon
iferous strata must be absent ; for the Laurentian
formation is older than the Silurian, and the Silurian
older than the Old Red Sandstone, and the Old Red
Sandstone older than the Carboniferous strata."
[St A.]
(e) Goldscheider proved that muscular sensations play no
considerable part in our consciousness of the move
ments of our limbs, by having his arm suspended on
a frame and moved by an attendant. Under these
circumstances, where no work devolved on the
muscles, he found that he could distinguish as small
an angular movement of the arm as when he moved
and supported it himself. [Creighton.]
(/) He also proved that the chief source of movementconsciousness
is pressure-sensations from the inner
surface of the joints, by having his arm held so that
the joint surfaces are pressed more closely together,
and finding that a smaller movement was now per
ceptible. [Creighton.]