38 The Cause of Life and Motion 



very minute pictures turned upside down in our 

 eyes. Can we look at any object and reconcile 

 this teaching with the fact ? 



We are told that although we actually see the 

 object inverted, our intelligence nevertheless tells 

 us that it is not inverted. We are still further 

 confounded by being told that the little inverted 

 image is made more insignificant by being con- 

 veyed through the optic nerve presumably in a 

 stream to the brain, where the atoms are sup- 

 posed to be sorted out and rearranged by the in- 

 telligence in proper order. It is strange how 

 science ever strives to pervert the truth. An ig- 

 norant man guided solely by his natural instinct 

 would say that he sees an object outside of his 

 eyes, which assertion would be treated with de- 

 rision by the scientist. And yet the man of ig- 

 norance would be right. The vision and the mind 

 are undoubtedly both outside of the head, though 

 they reciprocate with the internal organs. 



A natural scene does not appear on the retina as an 

 image on a flat surface, but the forces from the eye re- 

 ciprocate with the forces which carry the elements of 

 the scene to the eye. 



The eye and the mind reciprocate with the 

 brain, and the brain is the prime material medium 

 of action between the mind and the several parts 

 of the body. There can be no action without 

 a perfect reciprocation between force and matter, 



