PSYCHOLOGY. (>.").") 



imprisoned in this feeling that they are unable to submit 

 the same to an internal process of comparison. 



3587. By reason of this inability to compare their own 

 feelings, not a trace is left unto them of internal change ; 

 so that these creatures are truly devoid of memory or 

 recollection. 



The Infusoria have only sensation, nothing else ; they 

 are therefore in ceaseless motion. They are actually 

 capable of nothing but moving and eating. Of all other 

 spiritual functions they are utterly devoid. 



3588. Their spiritual life is in some degree a mes- 

 meric condition. Destitute of the senses of seeing, hear- 

 ing, smelling and tasting, they feel every thing, or, properly 

 speaking, perform all these functions at one and the same 

 time, and by one organ, the visceral mass. By mesmerism 

 they find their food, perceive the light, and become 

 transparent unto themselves, just as they are really in a 

 physical point of view. For they are only viscera or 

 visceral nerves. 



Development of the Mind. 



3589. The mind, just as the body, must be developed 

 out of these animals. The human body has been formed 

 by an extreme separation of the neuro-protoplasmic or 

 mucous mass. So must the human mind be a sepa- 

 ration, a memberment of infusorial sensation. 



3590. The highest mind is an anatomized or dismem- 

 bered mesmerism, each member whereof has been con- 

 stituted independent in itself. 



The skeleton of this dissected mind, when scientifically 

 represented, would be the science of the mind, i. e. 

 Philosophy, properly so called. 



Pneumato-philosophy is the likeness of Physio-philo- 

 sophy. For spirit is only the tension of nature, and 

 nature only the spirit set in motion. 



The philosophy of spirit must develop itself out of the 

 philosophy of nature, as doth the flower out of the stem. 

 For nature is the spirit analyzed and at rest, which we 

 can handle at our pleasure. It does not appear only 



