"everything that makes a human being what he is, the inordinately subtle and exquisite combination of memory, desire, impulse, reflective capacity, power of association, even consciousness- to say nothing of sight and hearing, muscular movement and voice and something so taken for granted as the ability to chew- is encased delicaely in the skull, working there within membranes by processes so marvelously interlocked as to be beyond belief. all this- volition, imagination, the ability to have even the simplest emotion, anticipation, understanding- is held poised and balanced in the normal brain, with silent, exquisite efficiency."
