1 6 METAPHYSICS 



cells and their nuclei, the residual nucleolar units^ the 

 totality of which constitutes the material basis of mind, 

 or, in other words, the dwelling-place or home of the 

 mind, or Ego. 



Here, amid the teeming activities of the brain, the ebbs 

 and flows of intra-cranial circulation, the endless processes 

 of disintegration and repair of its material mechanism 

 here^ amid the tumult of atomic change, the buzz and 

 whirl of molecular displacement and restoration here^ in 

 the ceaseless surge and throb of the loom of thought, with 

 its recurrent intervals of blessed rest and repose, dwells 

 the presiding Psyche, burnishing the " wheels within 

 wheels " of her reason, polishing the keen shafts of her 

 wit, hugging her griefs, and shedding her " silent tears," 

 41 nursing her wraths," and pronouncing her anathemas in 

 alternate moods of heat and cold, prose and poetry. 



Here is the home of the human microcosm, where the 

 coiled and twisted chains of " the association of ideas " 

 are forged on the anvils of time, as it pursues its rapid 

 course into the abyss of eternity. Here, nevertheless, in 

 the tiny cosmos of this nucleolar sphere, the Everlasting 

 Spirit of the great cosmos can come in and hold converse 

 with its tenant. Yea here, surely, is the spot where the 

 Infinitely Great and the infinitely little can meet, com- 

 mingle, and become one. Yet here^ amid the flux and 

 re-flux of high motives and noble ambitions, sordid aims 

 and unappeased yearnings, in an atmosphere of hopes 

 and fears why should we not say it ? dwells the soul 

 of man. 



Herein, indeed, dwells the mind, the Ego, indivisible from 

 and incorporated with, but yet superior to its environment, 

 and in a sense a "free agent" Herein, in this " debatable 

 land," lies wrapped up as in a nutshell the inscrutable 

 mystery of immortality. Herein repose, in the archives 

 of memory, the long list of negatives and positives which 

 the mind has photographed and stored up during its 

 course, and the uncountable number of mental " goods 

 and chattels " which its owner has possessed himself of as 

 the result of his life's work and endeavours. Herein, 

 also, is the " court of the temple of appeal," where the 

 conscience-stricken sufferer can be tried and condemned 



