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something more than brain matter constitutes ani- 

 mal life. Some animals will continue to live for 

 months after the brain has been destroyed or re- 

 moved. 



It is plainly demonstrated that something which 

 resides in the vital organs governs the body and 

 moves the parts, like a telegraphic system, being 

 under the control of an operator. This life potency 

 feels what is done to it, sees through the eyes, 

 hears through the ears, and is conscious of its own 

 existence. Although the agency of the brain is 

 necessary to the working of the intellectual powers, 

 we are not to conclude that this organ can feel, 

 think, and will of itself; for it is not within the 

 range of possibility to conceive how a material sub- 

 stance can exhibit properties like those of the mind 

 or soul. 



There is another fact in this connection which is 

 generally overlooked, and that is, that the soul which 

 presides over the body does not assume the part of 

 a physician, but controls the entire body, as is best, 

 under both normal and abnormal conditions. The 

 soul acts in the same manner towards the body as 

 the providence of God which permits suffering and 

 death as the result of the fall of man. 



