EXTRACT XIII. 



ON THE EXPRESSIONS "THE MIND'S EYE," "IMMOR- 

 TALITY," AND "THE PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH." 



THE origin of the expression "the mind's eye" is very 

 obscure, but its true meaning has been appreciated and its 

 use had recourse to by every section of educated people 

 when speaking of things pertaining to what we may 

 designate the inner consciousness, or of things appreciated 

 by the mind alone, unassisted by the use of the senses, and 

 amenable alone to the processes of reasoning in their pure 

 and peculiar psychological forms. 



The physiological and material bearings of the subject 

 have here to some extent ceased to enter into the practical 

 evolution of the phenomena of mind, or apart from their 

 necessary existence and potential bearing as a sleeping 

 partner in the materio-dynamic, or physiologico-psycho- 

 logical firm, so to speak. 



This sleeping or physiological partner, to continue the 

 metaphor, contributes to the assets of the firm the whole 

 material and rolling stock in use, with their motive 

 powers, or dynamic supplies generated and regulated by 

 uni-cellular or molecular innervation, sympathetic inner- 

 vation and control, and systemic innervation, all of which 

 are inhibited from but capable of immediate switching on 

 and periodically sustained use, by the mentally endowed 

 cells or purely psychic neurons. The physiological 

 material and power, with their histological ways and 

 means, open and viable by psychological impulse, the 

 whole universe lies open to the view of " the mind's eye," 

 and but requires the aid of reason, with the assistance 



