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have been known to repudiate pictures afterwards 

 conclusively proved to be authentic, with consequences 

 unpleasant to themselves." 1 



And we shall see in this process of regeneration what 

 a blessing it is for us all that this power of memory 

 does not cling too closely to us. We do not wish our 

 errors to stick too closely to us. The actions of men 

 are mainly governed by the condition of the brain-cells. 

 These objects, which are thinking, living individuals, 

 prompt our e very-day actions. They create the savant, 

 they make the madman. They are the factors in the 

 existence of the thief as well as the most honest of men. 

 They make the truthful and the liar, the saviour and 

 the murderer. They make the hero and the coward. 

 In every case they are the prompters of our e very-day 

 actions in life. They compel the wise to think wisely, 

 and the foolish to think foolishly. They make misery 

 and human happiness. 2 



The brain-cells are to be cultivated and marshalled 

 in order. This is education. They exist in excep- 

 tional cases in a natural intuitive development, partly 



1 ; < My Autobiography," W. P. Frith, R.A., 1887, vol. ii. p. 315. 



2 " If there is one thing clear about the progress of modern science, 

 it is the tendency to reduce all scientific problems, except those which 

 are purely mathematical, to questions of molecular physics that is to 

 say, to the attractions, repulsions, motions and co-ordination of the 

 ultimate particles of matter. Social phenomena are the result of the 

 interaction of the components of society, or men, with one another 

 and the surrounding universe. But, in the language of physical 

 science, which, by the nature of the case, is materialistic, the actions 

 of men, so far as they are recognizable by science, are the results of 

 molecular changes in the matter of which they are composed ; and, in 

 the long run, these must come into the hands of the physical. A 

 fortiori, the phenomena of biology and of chemistry are, in their 

 ultimate analysis, questions of molecular physics. Indeed, the fact is 

 acknowledged by all chemists and biologists who look beyond their 

 immediate occupations." (" Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews," 

 T. H. Huxley, LL.D., F.R.S., 1893, p. 144.) 



