THE ADVENT OF MAN. 



nerves and are immediately conveyed to the brain ; the 

 brain compounds same with other properties of brain 

 matter and thereby determines the composition of the 

 sound generating property. The judgment is unerring, 

 providing other sounds are not impinging at the same 

 time, thereby confounding the judgment by various 

 derivative results. The reason why the judgment is 

 not always unerring now days being on account of so 

 many harsh sounds being always impinging against 

 the sensory nerves, or auditory nerves, that in com- 

 pounding the results of impact there are so many agi- 

 tating mediums impinging at once. In consequence 

 the brain, after weighing all by compounding same, 

 has to resort to conjecture as to which of_the results 

 apply to the given case. 



In the case of particles impinging against the 

 nerves of vision, they are immediately transferred to 

 the brain by the nerves. The brain compounds same 

 and derives a result which is unerring. But where 

 there are several different particles impinging at the 

 same time and all taken to the brain to be compounded, 

 then the brain has to resort to conjecture as to which 

 of the results, which are unerring, applies to each given 

 case. And therein remains the confusion. The re- 

 sults in each case being unerring, but adaptability to 

 place of each tends to bring confusion into the results. 



The brain can be corrupted by trying to weigh 

 nothing, that is, looking for revelation from corrupt 

 gods who have been reported as giving instructions to 

 brains. The brain in trying to weigh the impressions 



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