Word: connects
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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...though his promises are so favorable to a correct philosophical theory, his conclusions are by no means as satisfactory as the facts from which he obtains them. The inferences which he draws connect the mind so intimately with body, and make it so dependent upon the body for its action, that we cannot see how it could exist after or without it. The study of actions, as far as it tends to a better knowledge of the mind, is advantageous; but in some cases Mr. Bain seems to reduce the mind to those actions, or, rather, to consider mental phenomena...