EXTRACT III. 



PHYSIOLOGICO-PSYCHOLOGICAL OR ANATOMY TRAN- 

 SCENDENTAL. IN SEARCH OF THE DWELLING- 

 PLACE OR HOME OF THE EGO. 



IN all ages, or ever since man began to think seriously, the 

 search after the manner of his material and mental union 

 has aroused his curiosity, stimulated his thought, and 

 quickened his consciousness, and has afforded an ever- 

 recurrent theme for the flight of his poetry and a text 

 for his more prosaic dissertation. 



The search has been more or less attempted in every 

 generation sometimes with more apparent success and 

 sometimes with less, but always with an absorbing interest 

 which has kept alive his belief in his dual nature and 

 destiny. 



In the early ages, and even yet, man has referred to 

 his heart as the centre of his material being and the 

 dwelling-place of his soul, and, in his most solemn 

 moments, has appealed to it for guidance and sought 

 its dictates. 



Time, however, and the exercise of the powers of 

 human observation and thought, have gradually lessened 

 the hold of this belief on the human family, and the 

 advent of anatomical, physiological, and psychological 

 research has driven it into anatomical obscurity, and 

 compelled its votaries to recognise the brain as the habitat 

 and scene of mental operations the metaphysician follow- 

 ing at last, and saying to this Amen ! 



Since the advent of these new views, the curious in 

 anatomy, or at least some of them, have at different 



