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verse order to that in wliicli tliey built up the system, 

 until dust to dust manifests tlie ultimate elements in 

 their primal form, with only a low grade of cohesive 

 power remaining. 



Seventli, That the different phenomena of mind in 

 health and disease can be explained satisfactorily to my 

 mind J if the views stated be accepted without leading 

 to ilTomcal conclusions. 



Eighth. That no appeal has l>een made to argu- 

 ments and deductions beyond accepted phenomena, and 

 only by legitimate conclusions drawn from evidence 

 furnished by the senses. 



We see the intimate relation existin": l)etween the 

 ego and non-ego in the influence the one exerts on the 

 other. Dyspei:)sia will give the patient that mental 

 despondency which vulganly goes by the name of the 

 "blues." It is also true that strong emotion, or any 

 mental shock, unexpectedly excited, at once affects the 

 stomach, in disturbing its digestive powers, and in sud- 

 denly quenching all sense of hunger. Local causes 

 will produce constipation, or flux of tlie bowels, or, it 

 may be, retention of urine in the bladder, without 

 the invasion of disease, but mental excitement or anx- 

 iety of any kind will produce the same results. Violent 

 exercise will increase the heart's action ; so also will 

 sudden fright. Friction of the genital organs will ex- 

 cite them; the same results will be produced by pruri- 

 ent desires, either aroused when awak(i or asleep; on 

 the other hand sexual excitation will be quenclied })y 

 sudden fear. There is not an organ of the l)ody but 

 can l)e aftected thi-ough mental influence. We shall see 

 . if this mentality can consistently be called a function 

 of tlie organs it is assumed to have the power to rouse 

 to action, or in other words wliether an effect can per- 

 foj-m the impossibility of l)eing its own atuse. These 



