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tageous exhibition of the new subject. Hut in Jackson it is 

 different. I hail iH-vc-r been here before all strangers. I 

 had the best light yet, and the affair went off satisfactorily. 

 I spoke in the Presbyterian church. The clergyman said 

 it was by far the ablest and most masterly lecture to which 

 he had ever listened, and expressed great wonder at the 

 possibility of cramming so much clear thought into a single 

 performance. The practical, testing effect was that the 

 committee desired to engage me in February for the four 

 on the Chemistry of the Sunbeam, at two hundred dollars. 

 I declined to engage positively. ... I am stopping with the 

 plcasantest private family in the world. Good folks are 

 everywhere. 



Make rough, large skeleton drawings of your own of 

 the brain, its parts and dynamic connections, so as to help 

 me when I return. Can't you draw a rough colossal spi- 

 nal column, with the thirty-one pairs starting out two col- 

 ours, and the entrances sufficiently far apart so that you 

 could print appended to each nerve the part to which it 

 goes, so that the whole could be learned in the quickest 

 way and without reference to text, which loses time ? Our 

 studies should be, first, the fullest normal anatomy and 

 physiology of the nervous system; then we shall be pre- 

 pared to consider fully its pathology and all its morbid 

 phenomena. And then we shall first be prepared to estimate, 

 weigh, and pronounce authoritatively upon the whole do- 

 main of mysticism, upon which the public are actually mad, 

 viz., biology, magnetism, spiritism, etc. A large and rich 

 field; and as an offshoot of the first branch of inquiry the 

 Chemistry of the Sunbeam is a mere twig. I write in great 

 haste. Don't forget to drop me a line frequently if you 

 have but a word, and I will do the same. 



With love to all, affectionately, 



E. L. Y. 



