SCIENCE 



There is no mind apart from mind, as there is no 

 light apart from the eye; there are only the vi- 

 brations in the ether which give us the sensation of 

 light. 



The mind turns, so to speak, and regards itself. 

 Reason looks reason in the eye and judges it — an 

 impossible feat tried by any physical standard. 

 The eye can see all things but itself; the body can 

 move itself, but cannot lift itself; in lifting we press 

 downward with the force we exert upward. 



When a certain molecular motion in the brain 

 ceases, the mind ceases, and presently another 

 molecular action in the brain substance, called 

 dissolution, or putrefaction, sets in. The mind has 

 not gone somewhere, any more than the flame of the 

 candle has gone somewhere when we blow it out. 

 Its elements still exist, but their combinations have 

 changed. The heat has gone into the great sea of 

 uniform temperature and has changed it no more 

 than a drop changes the ocean. So far as I can see 

 there are no terms in which we can discuss the 

 reality of the soul except in the terms of physical 

 bodies. To discuss it in theological or metaphysical 

 terms is like trying to weigh shadows. 



The amount of matter now on the earth that has 

 once formed or been through the human brain is 

 considerable — water, lime, phosphorus, iron, and 

 so on. This matter has gone through what we call 

 the psychic world. How it has been impressed by ib 



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