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a result. The only thing which cerebral 

 physiology tells us, when studied with the 

 aid of molecular physics, is against the 

 materialist, so far as it goes. It tells us 

 that, during the present life, although 

 thought and feeling are always manifested 

 in connection with a peculiar form of mat- 

 ter, yet by no possibility can thought and 

 feeling be in any sense the products of 

 matter. Nothing could be more grossly 

 unscientific than the famous remark of 

 Cabanis, that the brain secretes thought 

 as the liver secretes bile. It is not even 

 correct to say that thought goes on in the 

 brain. What goes on in the brain is an 

 amazingly complex series of molecular 

 movements, with which thought and feel- 

 ing are in some unknown way correlated, 

 not as effects or as causes, but as con- 

 comitants. So much is clear, but. cerebral 

 physiology says nothing about another life. 

 Indeed, why should it ? The last place in 

 the world to which I should go for in- 

 formation about a state of things in which 



