CHAPTER XX 



SCIENCE AND MIND 



According to Science, the brain is the organ of 

 the mind. 



We have grown so accustomed to think of the 

 brain as the organ of the mind that it is difficult 

 to realise that any other opinion could ever have 

 been held. Yet in the Bible the word " brain " is 

 never used, and thoughts and emotions are 

 attributed to quite other organs. Thus in the 

 Psalms we read : " His reins instruct him in the 

 night seasons," and " The Lord trieth the heart and 

 the kidneys." 



Among the early Greek thinkers there was a 

 difference of opinion. Plato and Alcmaeon taught 

 that the brain was the seat of the mind. Aristotle, 

 again, taught that the brain was merely a sponge 

 to cool the heart. 



Not till experimental physiology was practised 

 at Alexandria was the position of the brain as 

 the centre, of mind established, and not till the 



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