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that psychical properties inhere in matter (hy- 

 lozoism), an idea of which De Maupertuis (1698- 

 1759) was one of the earhest exponents, and which — 

 entertained by not a few — has come down from the 

 pre-Socratic Greek philosophers, particularly from 

 the early Greek (Ionian) school of physicists. 



However, my theory does not conflict with any 

 other theory, since science has been utterly unable 

 to account for the origin of psychic qualities. 



XI. The concept that the relation of "mind" to 

 the brain is that of an intraatomic electrical system 

 (the Z-system of the brain) to matter. 



Mind, I hold, is the organ of the soul that corre- 

 sponds to the brain of the body. The mind is the 

 mechanism of associative memory. The "truly psy- 

 chical" in man finds its interpretation in the mechan- 

 ism of the mind (thus conceived) . Psychic properties 

 inhere in the mind, not in the brain. The well-known 

 fact (mentioned before) that normally the human 

 brain begins to decrease in size when the individual 

 is about twenty years old, while psychic, or mental, 

 powers continue to increase indefinitely, has been an 

 insuperable difiiculty. To the new view this dif- 

 ficulty vanishes; and other diflSculties connected 

 with the brain find their ready solution. 



XII. The definition of death. {See p. 157.) 



This definition of death covers death wherever 



