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vaguest and most general sense, and includ- 

 ing in it unconscious as well as conscious 

 operations. 



Suppose we grant all this, what then ? 

 We have granted that brain is the means 

 whereby mind is made manifest on this 

 material plane, it is the instrument through 

 which alone we know it, but we have not 

 granted that mind is limited to its material 

 manifestation ; nor can we maintain that 

 without matter the things we call mind, 

 intelligence, consciousness, have no sort of 

 existence. Mind may be incorporate or 

 incarnate in matter, but it may also transcend 

 it ; it is through the region of ideas and the 

 intervention of mind that we have become 

 aware of the existence of matter. It is 

 injudicious to discard our primary and funda- 

 mental awareness for what is after all an 

 instinctive inference or interpretation of 

 certain sensations. 



The realities underlying those sensations 

 are only known to us by inference, but they 

 have an independent existence : in their 



