the s.ame principles of reasoning adopted by the pure 

 scientists, and draw no conclusions they would not 

 readily admit as legitimate from the premises adduced. 

 I wish to show brieiiy : 



Iflrst. That it is not in accordance with j^hysiolog- 

 ical .and pathological facts to call mental ])hen()mena 

 functions of the brain. 



Second. That no evidence ad<luced has satisfactorily 

 established the localization of mentality beyond the 

 focal point of nerve tissue in the basal ganglia of the 

 brain. 



Third. That brain power is not dependent on the 

 size of the organ only, but requires many other condi- 

 tions to manifest its durability and intensity. 



Fourth. That psychic force correlates to some ex- 

 tent with magnetism, and is probably a higher power 

 of the same substance, and presumal)ly is the most 

 subtle form of material existence known to man. 



Fifth. That this entity exists in the nervous system 

 of all animals and beings possessing this structure, not 

 depending on a molecule for its existence, but, on the 

 contrary, the molecule could have no being without its 

 constructive power. The maker of the molecule neces- 

 sarily antedates the creation, and manifests the occu- 

 pancy of the tenement in a series of functions numerous 

 and complicated. 



Sixth. That the intensity and complicity of mental 

 modes, cceteris varih(.% do depend on the condition 

 and capacity of the organ, and that the intellectual and 

 moral powers decrease in a certain proportion, as the 

 instrument diminishes in efficacy (as a magnet decreases 

 in power according to its size), until only automatic or 

 reflex life remains. In other words, the descending 

 series of jy-Sf/chis?)), vitcdity^ electricity^ leave in the in- 



