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discernment, and comprehension, far beyond the reach 

 of those less educated. But there must always exist a 

 structural adaptation to such training, before the or- 

 ganized memory can be established. Otherwise the 

 conceptual images will never, however long and ardu- 

 ous the training, coalesce into reason and will. Hence 

 the substrate, as Wundt calls the nerve tissues, is the 

 all-important, and abiding thing, in psychical phe- 

 nomena. If this structure is lacking no amount of 

 training will suffice to make potent the psychic phe- 

 nomenon. Neither will the cosmic energy that as- 

 sumes, through the persistence of force, such a multi- 

 plicity of effects in nature, ever assume the psychic 

 form, now commonly called the human mentality in 

 this highest form of organized memory, unless by -way 

 of nerve tissue in the cerebral centers. 



PHENOMENISM. Phenomenism is the psychological 

 condition existing in the "mind," being the correspond- 

 ence between the individual and his environment. It is 

 also defined as ' ' self " and " not-self. " " Not-self ' ' is the 

 realm of phenomena objective to our sense organs, and 

 reaches all things making sensations, or images on the 

 brain centers, from the rays of the farthest fixed 

 stars, to the subtlest reasonings, and the most esthetic 

 judgments, as well as the most altruistic relationships, 

 implied in the expression, ' ' The Brotherhood of Man. ' ' 

 Therefore, it is this realm of phenomenism that re- 

 ceives the direct attention of consciousness. It is the 

 really knowable. To keep in proper correspondence with 

 it, is the highest wisdom, and the only preventive of illu- 

 sion and delusion. He who confines his attention to it is 

 sane. The insane are those who claim correspondence 

 with things, that have no objective existence. All life 

 depends on correspondence with phenomena. In this 



