sense-nerves

Updated: June 28, 2025

"Lawrence seems all capable sense-nerves, and he is so very efficient with his touch. What a keen appreciation of beauty he has!" "I think he does remarkably well." "In the hills he used to describe scenes to me, and do it accurately just from their sound; running water and wind in the trees," she went on, not noticing Philip's short replies. "Yes, that is quite surprising."

Leslie Burton Blades - Claire: The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, By a Blind Author

But at first all the sense-organs are merely parts of the skin in which sensory nerves expand. These nerves themselves were originally of a homogeneous character. The different functions or specific energies of the differentiated sense-nerves were only gradually developed by division of labour.

Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel - The Evolution of Man — Volume 2