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animal in the objects of his life. They accomplish the 

 same object, only in a human and more complex way. 

 The human way of sustenance, housing and clothing, is 

 better in quality only. It has a better effect in pro- 

 longing life. 



Man's advancement and civilization are almost liter- 

 ally carved out of matter, in mechanisms that serve his 

 needs physically. There has arisen, from this charac- 

 teristic, his mental habit of analyzing the psychical, 

 as a mechanism, and treating nature and evolution, in 

 the same way. He is not a spiritual being. Ideality 

 and metaphysics, except as mechanisms, do not appeal 

 to him. 



MIND, THE AGGREGATION OF FEELINGS. As many sen- 

 sations received by the organism, do not reach the 

 highest and largest ganglion of the nervous system, 

 the encephalon, but are co-ordinated by the smaller 

 ganglia, located in the various parts of the body, it 

 follows that the popular idea that the brain is the sole 

 seat of the mind, is erroneous. The cerebrum is, how- 

 ever, the seat of what is known as intellectuality. 



Every obvious feature, of the organism, is some ex- 

 pression of the mentality, or character of the indi- 

 vidual. And, therefore, to a certain degree, there is 

 an adumbration of truth in the claims of the various 

 advocates of special localizations, that the shape of the 

 head, the physiognomy, the palm of the hand, the 

 hand writing, the voice, the walk, all show character. 

 But the interpretation lies in the combination of all 

 external peculiarities of the body. 



Phrenology assumed too strict a localization of 

 mental function in the cerebral centers. Every psy- 

 chical phenomenon is not only the result of the sensory 

 excitation of its appropriate brain center, but is con- 



