40 THE ORIGIN OP CREATION. 



obtained, in the future, as it has been in the past by an endless 

 series of blunders, impediments, and failures. 



Let us now give an opinion, of the manner in which the 

 materials comprised in a man's body, form mind, and how this 

 mind exhibits itself. 



A literary man when starved, or hungry, does not feel in a 

 humour to write, and if obliged to do so, it is accomplished in 

 anything but a satisfactory manner. A man who is sick or 

 feverish cannot do any mental work. When we eat too much 

 we feel drowsy, and disinclined for literary labour, but allow 

 two or three hours to elapse, and we are ready for such work. 

 After a smart walk or early in the morning, we are inclined, and 

 ready, for anything that demands attention. 



If we drink alcoholic spirits, some evil influence usually 

 ascends to the head, and disarranges our faculties ; while again, 

 aome men can only write or speak with effect, when half 

 intoxicated. Many men also when sober, will forget everything 

 they did when intoxicated, but remember the circumstances 

 when they become inebriated again. We have read of the 

 mind acting in a similar manner with people under the influence 

 of chloroform. We would gather from these facts, that the mind 

 is influenced in a great measure by what the body eats and 

 drinks. Some might thus say that the intellect is in the region 

 of the stomach, but such is not strictly correct. 



We may lay it down as certain, however, that ^ the animal 

 mind of man like that of the beast is formed from the 

 properties of the matter lie eats and drinks ; and man's divine 

 mind is a property acquired by matter, after it has been trans- 

 formed within him. 



But the properties of matter in food, as they lie on the 



