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They do not reside in the nerves of motion, of sensation, or 



organic life. 

 Proof that consciousness and will do not reside in the brain as 



a whole. 

 Question whether consciousness and will reside in any part of 



the brain. 

 Internal nerves of the brain, like other nerves, are mere media 



of communication. 



The mind, through consciousness, receives intelligence from 

 certain nerves. By the will, it conveys orders to distant 

 parts through other nerves. 

 Effects of slicing the brain. This does not destroy the mind 



until it destroys life. 



We have every physical reason to believe that the mind is not 



a function of any part of the organisation, though it is 



placed in relation with the nervous system in the higher 



orders of animals, and, in htalth, obscurely, with the brain. 



Folly of the mind endeavoring to comprehend itself. 



Consciousness and will awakened, but not created by the nerves. 



Mind receives all impressions from without. 

 Two routes of communication with external things. REVELA- 

 TION and THE SENSES. The latter only belongs to Phy- 

 siology. The nerves are the instruments. 



Proof that the mind regards the body, and consequently the ner- 

 vous system and brain, as things external to itself. 

 Phenomena of self-judgment. Reflective persons sometimes 



speak of themselves in the third person. 

 Phenomena of nervous fever, seeming detachment of mind 



and body. Anecdote of a lady. Other illustrations. 

 Both physics and metaphysics prove the mind not to be a part 



of the organisation. 



The obvious phenomena of mind, nevertheless, depend on 

 the organisation; because the nerves alone convey physi- 

 cal intelligence to, and commands from, the mind. Appa- 

 rent energy and results of mind dependent upon the per- 

 fection of the organisation. 

 Basis of rational phrenology. 



On the variety of the functions of different parts of the brain. 

 Senses of color, time, sequence, causality, justice, &c. 



