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dinner table, are not in a fit condition for our purpose ; neither 

 are they while dissolving in the stomach. 



"Where then is the mind ? 



During the dissolving process, a gaseous force is generated 

 from our food as more fully described in another chapter 

 which ascends to a space at the top of the head, the purpose 

 of which space, physiologists have long and vainly endeavored 

 to discover and there, the mind, we believe, assimilates and 

 arranges the materials to be stored away in the memorial 

 chamber. 



Where then is the memory located ? 



We see numbers of landscapes, paintings, objects, faces of 

 men and women, etc. and can recognise a large number of 

 them when we see them again, or recall them in vision. Where 

 are these memories kept, to be exercised at the will of the mind? 

 We hear, read, and are taught, numberless words and facts from 

 books, and can bring them up again at a moment's notice for 

 use. Where are all these facts garnered and stored away 1 We 

 have great powers of compression, and can contract an immense 

 landscape into a picture the size of the pupil of our eye, but to 

 imagine that the contents of hundreds of books, with other 

 knowledge, is stowed away in the interior of the head, seems an 

 impossibility ; yet we can scarcely think otherwise. For although 

 we read and hear a vast amount of information every day, most 

 of it is soon forgotten. Those books also which are last read, are 

 best remembered, 'and only those pictures we last saw, or the 

 landscapes we viewed lately, can we recall to mind distinctly. 



The brain is therefore, as it were, like a gallery of transparent 

 pictures, each distinct class of knowledge havi.ig a section of 

 its own ; the largest being that devoted to the subject which we 



