AN ANIMATED MOLECULE 



AND ITS NEAREST RELATIVES/ 



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Inquirers seeking in eai'nest investigation to find tlie 

 basis of life, niav be divided into tliree cLasses. The 

 one class I shall call snhjectioists, or those who study 

 chiefly mental phenomena, and atteun)t to l)uild up a 

 system of philosophy from this source. The second 

 class may ])e designated oljecfivisfs, or those who 

 merely apply their attention to physical manifestations, 

 and endeavor through them to solve all the difficulties 

 which bar the way to a clear understanding of man in 

 his multifarious relations. The third division may l)e 

 styled the eclectics, who do not circumscribe their inves- 

 tigations to either body or mind, but on the one hand 

 endeavor to know from all sources, wlietlier a man be a 

 unity, a duality, or a trinity, and what are the relations 

 of this sphinx, which is continually pro])ounding so 

 many enigmas for our solution ; or on the other hand, 

 are seekino to find out if mind be a resultant or func- 

 tion of bodily forces and standing in the relation of 

 effect to cause. The first class are pure metaphysi-^taYt^^v 

 cians, who adhere strictly to the study of mental modes. 

 Many master minds have belonged to this class, but 



* Read before the AmiTican Association of Medical Superintendents of 

 Asylums for the Insane, at Washington, D. C, on the 10th of May, 1878. 



