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in some associated way, to manifest themselves elsewhere in manu- 

 facturing carpets, impelling railroad-trains, or printing newspapers as 

 determined by the original construction of the machine which they 

 have deserted? This question belongs as legitimately to science as 

 the one discussed in the article previously referred to ; for the scien- 

 tist iias no knowledge of mind apart from the brain which mani- 

 fests it. 



The same writer attempts a projection, upon the screen of thought, 

 of "a great source of life and mind, the prototype of our physical 

 sun," which may be supposed to hold the same relation to the world 

 of human thought that the sun holds to our world of matter. 



The relations of the sun's heat and light to the energies of our 

 planet (including the forces manifested by the organisms developed 

 from its crust and atmosphere) are correlations, in which the forces 

 concerned are mutually convertible ; moreover, the energies di<^plr.yed 

 by living bodies are of a higher order than are those of the sun 

 (heat, light, etc.) through whose influence these living energies are 

 developed. 



Where, then, does such a simile lead? If the forces emanating 

 from this great source of life and mind are convertible into human 

 energies, then according to the same law human energies are con- 

 vertible into those of the prototype. No new principle is introduced 

 by such a conception, and, in oi'der to make the figure good, the forces 

 of the prototype must even be regarded as of a lower order than hu- 



man energies. 



The human brain presents the most complex and highly-organized 

 form of matter known. Its relations and means of communication 

 with the other less complex organs which make up the entire body 

 are most subtile and intimate; through the organs of the special 

 senses it is also brought into communication with an environment 

 limited only by the range of vision, which is extended, by telescope 

 and microscope, to the nebulosities which belong to immensity on the 

 one hand, and to the obscurities of the infinitesimal on the other. 



The energies displayed by this remarkable organ hold a rank 

 among known forces comparable, in range and complexity, to its 

 structural superiority over other forms and combinations of matter. 

 These forces, so far as they come within the range of scientific obser- 

 vation, hold the same sort of relation to the material organism that 

 the force called magnetism bears to the magnet, or heat to the body 

 from v/hich it emanates. 



Beyond this relation. Science has no testimony to offer. 



