CHAP. XL] PLAN OF ' THE MIND OF MAN.' 129 



the mental faculties that is required according to the profession 

 or calling of the individual. Thus he shows how the lawyer 

 requires the second and third class of faculties (Syndramic and 

 Noemic) more especially to be brought into play. The doctor 

 has a more extensive range, and requires for his profession the 

 first three classes of faculties to be fully developed (Aisthenic, 

 Syndramic, and Noemic). The engineer requires faculties in 

 almost all respects similar to those which the doctor must 

 possess for the successful exercise of his profession, and the 

 clergyman should have a full development of the faculties of 

 the second, third, and fourth classes (Syndramic, Noemic, and 

 Pneuma-Noemic). 



Besides dividing the mental faculties into the above-named 

 classes or groups, he further proves that the nervous system is 

 a voltaic circuit. 



All batteries (says he) in animal bodies are compound batteries, one 

 battery being in the body, the other in the brain ; and, moreover, it is not 

 only a compound battery, but is also one in which its fibres interlace in a 

 wonderfully complex manner. 



This he most fully sets forth and further illustrates by maps, 

 diagrams, and various woodcuts. In two diagrams at page 213, the 

 theoretical nervous combination of lower animals and that of man 

 are demonstrated. It suffices here to mention that these two dia- 

 grams show a marked difference between the nervous combination 

 of lower animals and that of man. In the diagram showing the 

 nervous combination of man, we find that the Aisthenic occupies 

 the lower department of the mind ; higher in the mind we come to 

 the Syndramic department ; then higher still the Noemic, until we 

 reach the Pneuma-Noemic, which is the highest department of all 

 of the mind. 



Such is the rough sketch of the general plan on which the 

 ' Mind of Man ' and earlier ' Electro-Biology ' are based. Upon 

 this model were all Alfred Smee's writings and speeches con- 

 structed. His whole course of life was modelled upon this his 

 cherished metaphysical and moral structure. 



This work treats extensively of the supposed discordance of 

 religion and science : for to show, and indeed to prove, that for 

 the welfare of mankind religion and science must go hand in 

 hand, was ever the favourite task of his life. In this work he 

 has fully proved where the fallacy lies ; how it is to be remedied, 

 so as to prevent idolatry, ignorance, and matter- worship on the 



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