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and liberated the muscular power. Whence this impulse? 



center of the nervous system. Hut how did 



it originate there? This is the critical quest inn. to 



which some will reply that it had its origin in the human 



soul. 



aim and effort of science is to explain the unknown 



ins of the kn fore, is < 



: by knowledge. You have pmhahly i story 



of the (Jerman peasant, \\ 1m, in early railway days, was 

 taken to see the performance of a lo( lie had 



known carriages to be moved except by animal power. 

 Every explanation outside of this -n lay beyond 



his experience, and could not be invoked. After long 

 reflection therefore, and seeing no possible escape from the 

 conclusion, he exclaimed confidently to his c< 



miissen doch Pferde darin Bein" There must be 

 horses in>ide. Amusing as this locomotive theory may 

 seem, it illustrates a deep-lying truth. 



nee to our present question, some may be 

 disposed to press upon me such considerations as these: 



motor nerves are so many speaking-tubes, through 

 which messages are sent from the man to the world; and 

 your sensor nerves are so many conduits through which the 

 <>f the world are sent back to the man. Bu 

 i us where is the man. \\hoorwha 

 that sends and receives those messages through the bodily 



'I the phelin: ,:it to tin 



of a self within the self, which acts through tl 

 throu. fully constructed lustrum- -u picture 



the muscles as hearkening to the commands sent through 

 the motor !;:.>, and you picture the sensor nerves as 

 les of incoming intellige! not hound 



nn-nt this incchani-m by the assumption of an 

 entity which use.s it? In other w< 

 by your owu exposition into the hypothesis of a free human 



'i'ii is is fair reasoning now, and at a certain stage of the 

 woil; edge it might Will n deemed 



clnsi . n, h..\\- nstead 



of intrndiicin^ li^rlit into .ur mindrf, this I. s con- 



ifically increases . 

 in this case < 



;i, as stat< the im-thod of M-im.-c, h 



