168 UNIVERSAL EVOLUTION 



complexion, color of the eyes and hair, so that at each 

 moment of life the personality is the same. It is not a 

 process of cutting out an old cell and putting in a new 

 one made outside. It is a process of metabolism. 



THE PSYCHIC PHENOMENA. Science has never been 

 able to discover in mental phenomena anything but the 

 nerve structure, and its molecular motion. When the 

 molecular motion ceases, there is no consciousness. Then, 

 what is to be gained by assuming that there is some- 

 thing not apparent. Until there is something else 

 apparent, it is logical to attribute to the structure and 

 motion the resulting psychical manifestation. 



It is not unthinkable that matter and motion, in the 

 form of mobile nervous ganglia, charged with such 

 marvelous energy, can directly produce the thought of 

 mankind, when we see them in other combinations and 

 relations, produce tints of changing sunset, the rain- 

 bow, the solar spectrum, chemical attraction, the at- 

 traction of gravitation, and the evolution of all forms, 

 or the production of the finest music by the "rasping of 

 the hairs of a horse's tail, on the intestines of a cat." 

 (Win. James.) 



The natural phenomena in the environment referred 

 to above, are objective phenomena, that existed prior 

 to any known psychical phenomena. Their connections 

 with their real causes are as obscure, as are those of 

 mental phenomena, with their real causes. They are 

 all the results of particular combinations, and phases 

 of energy, and our senses never perceive them except 

 in these combinations. Thought is the reproduction 

 of them by sensations and images, through the 

 physical nervous structure. The mind is a spectrum 

 of objective phenomena, produced by sensations com- 

 ing through the eyes, ears, nose, skin, and mouth, and 



