128 OF VITAL MOTION. 



CHAPTER YI. 



OF THE ACTION OF MIND IN VITAL MOVEMENT.* 



Mind and body are associated in a mystical union, 

 and the one cannot be understood without the other ; 

 but it will facilitate our inquiries, and enable us to 

 attain with more readiness to some knowledge of the 

 action of mind in vital movement, if we consider the 

 mental principle as a distinct and separate entity, 

 before we regard it as wedded to corporeity. 



I. 



In mind apart from body there are no traces of 

 decay and perishability, nor is there any evidence of 



* In its most comprehensive sense, the term " raind" signifies 

 the composite essence which comprehends the several faculties 

 of memory, imagination, instinct, understanding, reason, con- 

 science, wiU and in this full sense we must be supposed to use 

 the term, mind. 



