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METAPHYSICS 



of the other great faculties of the mind, to scale heights 

 and fathom depths only reachable by and visible to that 

 " organ." 



The mind's eye constitutes the very centre and essence, 

 so to speak, of the consciousness or innermost core and 

 the imponderable or immaterial part of man, where his 

 whole life's experience, derived from material and im- 

 material sources, is stored up, focussed, and made available 

 for the mental and moral working of the human machine, 

 and for its pilotage through the scenes of earth to the 

 regions only appreciable by the mind's eye, by the agency 

 of faith faith begotten of belief in " things seen and 

 temporal," or appreciable by the senses and strengthened 

 by the exercise of reason on the consideration of those 

 " not seen and eternal." 



The material whereabouts or locale of the mind, we 

 have elsewhere contended, is to be found amid the 

 nucleoli of the purely mental cells, or neurons, in that 

 region of the cerebrum which we may designate the 

 sensorium proper a very indefinite term, but, nevertheless, 

 one which histologically will embrace the totality of the 

 truly mentally endowed neurons, and the centre of which 

 we might claim, as locally situated, where the special 

 senses and motor neurons debouch in the psychic area 

 and become linked up to it. 



When in a state of deep thought or mental abstraction, 

 or when becoming conscious in absolute darkness after 

 deep sleep and before the mental neurons have had time 

 to become continuous with or linked up to the cerebro- 

 spinal neurons, if, with the mind's eye we introspect 

 ourselves we shall be struck with a feeling, or conscious- 

 ness, that the whereabouts of the mind, or ego, is 

 intimately related to that cerebral area where the organs 

 of special sense are centrally located, or where the afferent 

 nervature and the efferent nervature become functionally 

 related to consciousness. 



In this region, spoken of popularly as situated 

 " behind " and " above " the eyes, the victims of too hard 

 work, worry, and insomnia sometimes express themselves 

 as suffering the " tortures of the damned," and almost 

 universally to speak of it as the region, or the fons et 



