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energy. Could observation of the molecular motion of 

 the brain molecules be made, in such way as to show 

 the forms and directions accompanying each psychical 

 explosion, (mental phenomenon), the laws of the latter 

 might be formulated therefrom, in the same manner 

 that Kepler formulated his laws of planetary motion, 

 from the molar motion of the planets. But it is plain 

 that such observations are not practical. They are not 

 practical for another reason. That is, that the images 

 are so evanescent, and numerous, that man could 

 hardly frame a law of their movements. Notwith- 

 standing this fact, it is a mere arbitrary assumption to 

 contend there is anything more in mentality than 

 molecular motion, or metabolism. It is a motion which 

 releases stored up energy, which is changed from a 

 passive state to a psychical or dynamic force. For 

 example, the want of this power of co-ordination in 

 the brain o-f man, prior to the discoveries of Copernicus, 

 kept men in ignorance of the true motions of the 

 stellar bodies. The objective fact existed, but not the 

 subjective correlative molecular motion of brain 

 structure. The true image was not formed on the 

 brain. Any knowledge is simply, and only a true 

 image of the phenomenon. Therefore there could be 

 no correspondence between the people, of the time 

 before Copernicus, and stellar laws. The channels of 

 this correspondence, in higher animals, are the five 

 senses of sight, touch, hearing, tasting, and smelling. 

 "Nothing is in our mind which has not been before in 

 our senses" is an old and true saying. 



MIND MAKING. This correspondence of the exterior, 

 with the internal nerve centers, is the process of 

 mind-making in its simplest terms in the new-born 

 infant. The infant, at birth, possesses the potential 



