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tributed to by other centers connected by cross asso- 

 ciate conduction paths. If the appropriate sensory 

 center becomes, more or less, abrogated from any 

 cause, other centers, in time, vicariously assume, and 

 perform its function through their cross paths. 



THE OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE. By bearing in 

 mind, that the before mentioned definition of knowl- 

 edge gives it two essential coexistent, or sequent 

 parts, which might be called obverse and reverse side, 

 or better still, scientifically, the objective and subjec- 

 tive; the absence of either of these essentials accounts 

 for the unknown, while the two, acting normally, 

 psychologically together, constitute the known. It is 

 obvious that if the first essential is absent, namely, 

 the objective, there can be no knowledge. "What- 

 ever it is possible to take interest in, whatever it is 

 possible to describe, whatever it is possible in any way 

 to apprehend, or think about, to remember, recog- 

 nize, forget, consciously identify, anticipate, intend, or 

 mean such thing is a mental object." (James Mark 

 Baldwin.) So the absence of the second element, which 

 may be defined, as the co-ordinating process occurring 

 in the encephalon, in its correspondence, between the 

 internal nervous centers, and the external relation of 

 things in the environment, (meaning by the eviron- 

 ment, all causes of sensation), would surely result in 

 want of knowledge. The subjective is really the 

 molecular motion of the structure in the brain that re- 

 ceives the sensations, and co-ordinates them into ideas. 

 There is no way to examine it empirically, while the 

 process is going on. and if that could be done, it is 

 more than probable that all that could be discerned, 

 would be physical motion of the molecules, resulting 

 in more or less decomposition and releasing stored-up 



