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performed, no sensation there experienced, indicates it to be any 
thing else than an organ, indispensable indeed to the physical sup- 
port and nourishment of the body, but in no degree the residence 
of the mind. 
On this position we cannot consent to argue further, and if 
there be any persons who seriously believe that the mind and 
affections reside in the stomach, we can only say, that in this case, 
we have no perceptions in common, and that the proof Witch con- 
vinces us would probably be lost upon them.. 
Weare then at last, compelled, to return to the head, from which 
intellectual citadel we should never, for a moment, have departed, 
did not some individuals affirm that they are not sure where their 
minds reside. 
Such a doubt fills me with amazement, for I am as distinctly 
conscious that my mental operations are in my head, as I am of 
my existence, or that my eyes present to me the images of ex- 
ternal things ; nay more, ] am equally certain, that no merely intel- 
lectual or moral operation has its seat below the bottom of the or- 
bital cavities; that all the wonderful and beautiful structure be- 
neath the bass of the brain quite to the soles of the feet, is com- 
posed merely of corporeal members, of ministering servants, that 
obey the will and execute the mandates of the heavenly principle, 
the representative of the Creator residing within the beautiful dome 
that crowns our frames, and which, like the lofty rotunda of a holy 
and magnificent temple, covers the inhabitant beneath, while it 
looks upward to heaven, with ae toward its divine author 
and architect. 
Are we then expected seriously to assert, that which appears 
lf Fident, that the seat of our mental operations, and f our 
affections and propensities, is in the brain? My consciousness 
informs me so, and this is the highest possible evidence to me, 
although my consciousness cannot be evidence to another person. 
Were it possible for life to exist with the body detached from the 
head, the latter might perhaps be even capable of thinking for 
a short time, without the appendage of trunk and limbs. Indeed, 
we are sure, that dislocation of the neck, while it has paralyzed 
and rendered insensible all the parts below, so that the individual 
ceases to be conscious that he possesses a body, has often left 
the mind in full operation. Provided the luxation or other severe 
injury has taken place below the vertebre from which proceed the 
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