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who believed himself to have been sold as a slave, and 

 to have suffered seven years' servitude during the in- 

 stant that his head remained immersed in the bath ; 

 or in the story of Mahomet's ascent to the seventh 

 heaven in the interval between the overturning of a 

 water-jar and the escape of the contents, for in 

 both these stories is shadowed forth the superiority 

 to the bounds of time which is a second property of 

 mind. 



3. The mind, also, is not subject to place. On the 

 contrary, there is, as it were, an irradiation from one 

 person to another, and it is difficult to define the 

 limits of mental being. 



We arrive at this conclusion from the arguments 

 which show the correlation of physical and vital force 

 which arguments have been set forth elsewhere* 

 but we may obtain direct as well as indirect evidence 

 if we examine mental actions, (as words, ideas, feel- 

 ings, or the more general movements of the frame,) 

 or the faculties which are the motives and springs 

 of these actions ; for in every instance we may detect 

 the operation of mind beyond the body whence it 

 emanates. 



An instance illustrative of the connexion of words 

 with a foreign mental impulse, was told me the other 

 day by a friend, as having fallen under his own notice 



* See Proteus, or the Law of Nature, chap. ii. 



