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sensations, or feelings. Sustentation is transfer of 

 substance from where it is to where it is not, and a 

 change during the process to a new form ; and fear, or 

 defense of life, is the change of the line of motion of 

 substance, from where there is resistance, to a line 

 where there is little. In all cases, the final decision of 

 so-called reason, i. e., the course the molecular process 

 producing the mental hesitation will take, depends 

 upon some motive outside of the so-called mind itself, 

 operating through the emotions, or instincts, gener- 

 ally through love or fear. For example, when a man 

 unexpectedly confronts danger to his person, or to his 

 family, the direction of his motor action, or "will 

 power" is entirely governed by the emotion of fear 

 suddenly aroused. He meets it by doing that which 

 his judgment dictates, as the most effective, for avoid- 

 ing the danger. The sensation terminates, in the 

 motor action, which the peculiar form of his brain 

 compels him to take. It is the preservation of him- 

 self, or his race, that produces the reason and the 

 "will," or, as said above, the transfer of motor 

 actions, from the line of resistance, to one of lesser 

 resistance. Thus, in reality, what is called the mind 

 of the organism, which is nothing but the aggregation 

 of natural feelings, induced by molecular, or chemical 

 motion, initiated by objectivity, has no control what- 

 ever in forcing this molecular power of the brain into 

 any but natural channels, and only into such channels, 

 as make for the physical welfare of the individual and 

 his race. It is along this line only that his brain has 

 developed. 



Any departure from this principle simply ends in 

 calamity to the individual. The world is strewn with 

 the wrecks of lives because the reason of man has 



