282 Anima Mundi. 



extremes wider than the poles apart extremes 

 sundered by the whole diameter of being. The 

 result here, then, is not like the result of any 

 other function. It is wholly unique; something 

 quite new, fresh, and original ; something un- 

 precedented, something unparalleled, absolutely 

 single and singular, absolutely sui generis. The 

 result here in fact, is the very antithesis, the 

 very counterpart of the organ which is sup- 

 posed to function it. 



" An organ, after all, consists of parts ; but 

 thought has no parts, thought is one. Matter 

 has one set of qualities ; Mind, another ; and 

 these sets are wholly incommensurable, wholly 

 incommunicable. A feeling is not square, a 

 thought is not oval. . . . No function of 

 the body, and no function of any machine out 

 of the body, presents any parallel to the nature 

 of thought." x 



Before this problem of the genesis of 

 Thought, Materialism is dumb. And yet this 

 same Thought (" without precedent," " without 

 parallel,") has changed the face of the world. 

 " From the moment when the first skin was used 

 as a covering, when the first rude spear was 

 formed to assist in the chase, the first seed sown 



1 Dr. Stirling's " Materialism in relation to the Study 

 of Medicine," p. 8. 



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