Note 178 — VI. BROUSSAIS’S PSYCOLOGY.

Cours de Phrénologie, p. 77. He also says, “Their central intra-cranial being, to which they attribute all the faculties of a man, is not cognisable by any of our senses, ... it is therefore a pure hypothesis.”—Ibid. p. 153. Thus there is no mind (pure hypothesis); no faculties but those of the organs (the faculties are the acts of material organs); no understanding, except as a simple phenomenon of the nervous action (understanding and all its manifestations are phenomena of nervous action); consequently, there is no psycology; there is nothing but physiology; and even (for it should be clearly understood) nothing but Broussais’s physiology.