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ory such as may fairly surprise its owner liimself 

 as soon as he begins really to examine the marvel- 

 lous wealth and variety of its contents. Cell 

 after cell and fibre after fibre in the numberless 

 minute elements of the brain have been indissolu- 

 bly connected by channels of nervous communica- 

 tion, impressed and modified by acts and ideas, 

 till the whole has become a supreme register of 

 past experiences, ready to be called up at a 

 moment's notice by the wonderful power of 

 association. 



