CONTENTS. v ii 



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Discoveries of intelligence ... ... * 107 



Bathybius. Moner ... 108 



Discolithi and cyatholici ... ... 109 



Dr. Wallich's observations ... ... ... ... ... ... no 



Protoplasm in the clouds ... ... ... ... in 



Protoplasm in general ... ... 113 



Criticisms on Huxley's hypothesis ... ... ... ... ... 114 



" Complete and final " refutation ... ... 115 



Dr. Stirling's observations ... 115 



IV. THE PHYSICS OF CONSCIOUSNESS. MENTAL MECHANICS. 



Professor P. E. Tait's remarks on spiritualists and materialists ... 117 



Interest of the subject ... ... ... ... 117 



Human body a machine ... ... ... 119 



Mechanical equivalent of consciousness ... ... ... ...119 



Unenquiring scientific belief ... ... ... 120 



Chasm between dead and living ... ... ... 121 



Physical basis of thought ... ... ... ... 122 



Ignorance of the nature of the changes of growth ... 123 



False philosophy and intimidation ... ... ... ... ... 125 



Physical views of mind ... ... ... 126 



Selection of facts to prove an hypothesis ... ... ... ... 127 



Fanciful speculation ... ... 128 



Mill's hypothesis of brain action ... ... ... ... ... 129 



Physiology and philosophy ... ... ... ... 130 



Being and living ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 131 



What am I? 132 



What is life? 133 



Changes in physiological doctrine ... ... ... ... ... 134 



False physiology ... ... ... 135 



Attacks upon religion ... ... ... ... 136 



Revival of Epicureanism ... ... 137 



Materialist compliment .. ... ... ... ... 138 



Lucretius ... ... ... ... ... 139 



Nursery theology ... ... 140 



Terrorism and threats ... ... ... ... ... 141 



The extension of the kingdom of matter ... ... ... .-.143 



Concessions extorted by intimidation ... ... 145 



Feeling. Sensation. Sensationalism. 



The brain the organ of the mind ... ... . . ... ... 146 



Bain's consciousness in muscular tissue ... ... ... ... 147 



Sensation. Feeling ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 148 



No analogy between action of liver and action of brain ... ... 149 



Different kinds of feeling ... ... ... ... ... ... 150 



Property of intellect. Note 150 



Feeling of a man ; of an amoeba 150 



