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that " magnetism was life," the wonder to us is that 

 man and all animals have not before our day been 

 demonstrated to be natural magnetic and electrical 

 machines, in which life was really magnetism and 

 thought electricity. 



With our fuller data to work on, these conclusions 

 are inevitable. That the animal body is such a 

 magnetic and electrical machine there is now no 

 doubt, but it is an hypothesis only in embryo. 

 Organisms have never been dissected and experi- 

 mented upon with this object in view, hence, much 

 data is still required for complete confirmation. The 

 facts wanted are those relating to the stomach and 

 intestines as a " battery," and the manner in which 

 the " wires " or nerves are connected with it and 

 charged with magnetism. 



Section J. Man's Automatic Mental Apparatus : 

 As a probable hypothesis or sketch outline of our 

 mind mechanism and action, we venture the following 

 as something for physiologists, and others better 

 acquainted with the human mechanism than we are, 

 to work upon and fill in. 



We have shown that the cells and all organisms 

 composed of cells, including man, are living magnets 

 with acting magnetic batteries of a special organic 

 kind. In man's battery (the stomach and intestines) 

 the dissolving of food is as much a chemical and 

 electrical action as the dissolving of metals in a 

 voltaic cell. 



