vibratiuncle (vibratiungkl)

[ The brain, not the spinal marrow or nerves, is the seat the soul, as far as it presides over the voluntary tions. For the efficacy of the motory vibratiuncles depends chiefly on that part of them which is excited within the brain. Hartley , Theory of the Human Mind, i. § 3. Hartley supposes that the vibrations excited by a sensory or other impre ion do not die away, but are represented by smaller vibrations, or vibratiuncles , the permanency and intensity of which are in relation with the frequency of repetition of the primary vibrations. Huxley, Animal Automatism.