266 TjiA.\SACTWNS OF THE AM£Ji'ICAj\ INSTITUTE. 



Physical and Mental Facts to be Inquired Into Separately. 

 Our inquiries must recognize this independent nature of the two 

 fields, and must investigate each within its own bounds, and under its 

 own conditions. No physical investigations can take the place of 

 metaphysical pursuits. Neither can successfully override and dis- 

 place the other. We find an illustration of an oversight of this fact 

 in phrenology. There is nothing at all to indicate to the senses that 

 the brain has anything to do with thought. We are no more con- 

 scious of our brains than of our hearts. If the phrenologist is to label 

 a given projection on the brain, he must know some corresponding 

 quality or power of the human mind. If he is to label a certain 

 bump memory he must know that he possesses a faculty of memory, 

 and he must know it by looking into his own consciousness. Then, 

 finding that this is a power of the mind, he must look around to see 

 if there is any projection on which he can fix his label. This trying 

 to mingle two processes of physical and intellectual inquiry has some 

 very ridiculous results, such as the notion of a power of inhdbitive- 

 ness, as if we all " located " for the same reason ! One man does 

 not emigrate because he is timid, and another because he is patriotic, 

 and a third because of family ties, and so on. And one might as well 

 say that we have a bump for going down town because a large num- 

 ber go down daily, and that one class have a bump for going down 

 town at ten, and another at nine, and another at seven ! If we can 

 say that given actions indicate certain powers, then there is certainly 

 a tendency in human minds to go down town, and therefore there 

 must be some bump to correspond ! By this kind of reasoning there 

 is no absurdity which cannot be reached. The phrenologist, before 

 he can be a phrenologist good for anything, must be a thorough phil- 

 osopher, lie must have analyzed the mind completely, and then, as 

 an after inquiry, he may ask what portion of the brain finds exercise 

 in this or that])ower. A man cannot philosophize save in connection 

 with consciousness. lie can make no inquiry in the external world 

 which will have the slightest significance, unless he makes a corres- 

 ponding iiKpiiry as to what is taking place in his own mind. • 



The Like and Thought Forces. 

 The idea of time belongs in common to the two classes of events, 

 intellectual and [physical. In connection with our thinking, a purely 

 intcllectiuil process, there goes on a series of physical events, happen- 

 ing locally in our brains. AVhat was really })roved to you hy my 



