In response to:
Sighting the Stream from the August 16, 2007 issue
To the Editors:
The source of “stream of consciousness” [Letters, NYR, August 16] seems to be Alexander Bain’s The Senses and the Intellect (1855), which refers to “sensations in one common stream of consciousness—in the same cerebral highway” (p. 359). It also surfaces in The Physiology of Common Life (1859) by George Henry Lewes (p. 61).
William C. Waterhouse
Professor of Mathematics
Penn State University
University Park, Pennsylvania
This Issue
November 22, 2007
This Issue
November 22, 2007
