# The machinery of the mind

Author: Firth, Violet M. (Violet Mary), 1890-1946; Tansley, A. G. (Arthur George), Sir, 1871-1955 [Author of introduction, etc.]

Genre: Psychology

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77457

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+machinery+of+the+mind+Firth&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Throughout every inch of our organism is a network of specialised fibres whose function it is to carry nervous impulses from the sense organs to the central nervous system of brain and spinal cord, and from thence out again to the muscles, glands, and other organs of reaction. The sense organs act as receivers of sensation, the nerve fibres as transmitters, the central nervous system as a general telephone exchange, and the muscles, glands, and organs as the executants of the impulses of the mind.

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XXIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-machinery-of-the-mind-77457/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-machinery-of-the-mind-77457/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-machinery-of-the-mind-77457/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-machinery-of-the-mind-77457/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-machinery-of-the-mind-77457/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-machinery-of-the-mind-77457/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-machinery-of-the-mind-77457/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-machinery-of-the-mind-77457/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-machinery-of-the-mind-77457/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-machinery-of-the-mind-77457/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-machinery-of-the-mind-77457/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-machinery-of-the-mind-77457/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-machinery-of-the-mind-77457/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-machinery-of-the-mind-77457/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-machinery-of-the-mind-77457/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-machinery-of-the-mind-77457/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-machinery-of-the-mind-77457/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-machinery-of-the-mind-77457/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-machinery-of-the-mind-77457/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-machinery-of-the-mind-77457/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-machinery-of-the-mind-77457/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-machinery-of-the-mind-77457/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-machinery-of-the-mind-77457/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-machinery-of-the-mind-77457/chapters/9/index.md)