Excerpt from The Physical Basis of Mental Life: A Popular Essay<br><br>A considerable part of the following essay formed the subject-matter of a lecture deliver ed in Leicester last November to the members of the Literary and Philosophical Society, and the public generally of that city.<br><br>The time appears to me opportune for an appeal in brief form to a still larger public in favour of princi ples of mental science, of the truth of which a long course of observations, extending over the best years of my life, has rendered me fully convinced. As these years have been chiefly passed in Germany and Austria, the German language and literature have become more familiar to me than those of my father-land. It has been in those countries, moreover, that my collection of casts of the heads of eminent men, criminals.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.