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HEREDITY. 



Mind is not 

 Soul. 



objective or subjective, is not soul, but a product 

 of vibration. It is a function of the soul, an 

 operation, a process ; but not an entity, not an in- 

 dividuality, as is the soul. Mind, soul and body 

 bear much the same relations to one another as 

 do the message, the electric current and the 

 wire. The wire is the medium (body), the elec- 

 tric current is the resident force (soul), the mes- 

 sage is the product of the vibrations (mind). 



As long as the soul is resident in the body its 

 manifestation as conscious mind is determined en- 

 Umitstfae Mind ^ re ty ^y tne functional power of the several brain 

 'centers. In other words, objective mind or con- 

 sciousness, as we experience it, is dependent upon 

 the cerebration. It varies in strength and char- 

 acter with the functional activity of the brain. 

 The destruction of a brain area completely ob- 

 literates its function; i. e., the faculty of mind it 

 manifested. 



The relation between the objective and sub- 

 jective minds is most intimate. They are in a 

 sense only two expressions of the I, the inner and 

 the outer manifestations of the ego. The object- 

 ive mind, while always limited by the functional 

 power of the brain, is none the less the expression 

 of the soul, for when the soul is absent there is 

 no mentation. No amount of gray matter, unless 

 it be animated by a resident life, can produce a 

 conscious thought. 



The materialist who attempts to explain mind 

 as a "secretion of the brain" has mistaken an ef- 

 fect for a cause, a process for a force, a physical 

 change for a resident life. The phenomena of 

 the objective mind can no more be produced b} 



Relation of the 

 Objective and 

 Subjective 

 Minds. 



