Carl Vogt

And all the long way down the centuries we meet with examples of reasoning on these subjects not unlike that of the philosopher who admired the benevolent wisdom of Providence in arranging that large rivers should flow past large towns.

One of the greatest of these hindrances was the conception of the brain as a secreting gland, which dates from Hippocrates and continues down to Karl Vogt, Cabanis, and other writers in the earlier years of the nineteenth century, who maintained that the brain secreted thought just as the liver secretes bile.

Hippocrates writes that the brain resembles a gland, being white and soft like glands.

It discharges the same glandular offices as regards the head.

And yes, naturally these people too were eventually born.

They were known by such names as Ludwig Buchner, Ernst Haeckel, Karl Vogt, and so on.

These people, whose lives on earth you are well enough acquainted with, are the same ones who explained away belief in material things as superstition and who, during the stage when they were approaching their most recent life in the physical world, viewed the spiritual world as the only real world.

They did this because the spiritual world was what was around them and they did not want to consider something that was not around them, some world beyond.

And all the long way down the centuries we meet with examples of reasoning on these subjects not unlike that of the philosopher who admired the benevolent wisdom of Providence in arranging that large rivers should flow past large towns.

One of the greatest of these hindrances was the conception of the brain as a secreting gland, which dates from Hippocrates and continues down to Karl Vogt, Cabanis, and other writers in the earlier years of the 19th century, who maintained that the brain secreted thought just as the liver secretes bile.

Hippocrates writes that, The brain resembles a gland, being white and soft like glands.

It discharges the same glandular offices as regards the head.