TRUTH 



man a valuable quality in the shape of inherited potential 

 nerve-energy, which was originally engendered by the 

 actual sense-action of the aesthetal cells in the course of 

 many generations. 



An impartial and critical study of the action of the 

 brain in various scientific leaders shows that, as a rule, 

 there is a certain opposition, or an antagonistic correla- 

 tion, between the two sections of the highest mental 

 power. The empirical representatives of science, or 

 those who are devoted to physical studies, have a pre- 

 ponderant development of the sensorium, which means 

 a greater disposition and capacity for the observation of 

 phenomena in detail. On the other hand, the speculative 

 representatives of what is called mental science and 

 philosophy, or of metaphysical studies, have the phro- 

 nema more strongly developed, which means a pre- 

 ponderant tendency to, and capacity for, a compre- 

 hensive perception of the universal in particulars. Hence 

 it is that metaphysicians usually look with disdain on 

 "materialistic" scientists and observers; while the latter 

 regard the play of ideas of the former as an unscien- 

 tific and speculative dissipation. This physiological an- 

 tagonism may be traced histologically to the compara- 

 tive development of the assthetal and the phronetal 

 cells in the two cases. It is only in natural philosophers 

 of the first rank, such as Copernicus, Newton, Lamarck, 

 Darwin, and Johannes Miiller, that both sections are 

 harmoniously developed, and thus the individual is 

 equipped for the highest mental achievements. 



If we take the ambiguous term "soul" {psyche or 

 anima) in the narrower sense of the higher mental 

 power, we may assign as its "seat" (or, more correctly, 

 its organ), in man and the other mammals, that part of 

 the cortex which contains the phroneta and is made up 

 of the phronetal cells; a short and convenient name for 

 this is the phronerna. According to our monistic theory, 



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