this solution to any of the so-called anomalies found in 

 comparing the results of pathological research with 

 mental j^henomena, and we hav^e here a key to unlock 

 the door behind wliich so much mystery exists, and 

 about which so many vaj:;ue and unsatisfactory theories 

 are propounded, founded on a pliysical basis alone. If 

 these three forces be granted, and I am not aware of 

 their being denied, the highest of whicli includes the 

 two lowest, and the second of which is necessarily ex- 

 istant l)ecause of the first of the series ; or if we hold 

 that each is a development of the otlier, many of the 

 riddles of })athology are solved, and existence is given 

 to an entity not dependent on matter for its existence. 

 Take a lew examples to show some of tlie ,difficulties 

 the objectivist has to contend with in explaining his 

 views, when brought to bear in the study of insanity. 

 For the sake of argument we will assume his position 

 to be correct. We will grant that the cerebro-spinal 

 system is the causation of all mental phenomena. With 

 Maud si ey we will put memory in every molecule and 

 consciousness as being only the recognition l)y a mole- 

 cule of the influence of sensory impi'essions ; like Car- 

 penter we will put volition in nerve tissue wherever 

 found, or to use his own terms call it "a function of the 

 supreme centers " {vide " Body and Mind ;" p. 30), or 

 designate will to be merely " a result of organic changes 

 in the supreme centers" (^vide Popular Science Month- 

 ly, p. o20, vol. lii"); like Tyndall we will call the ego 

 "a poetic rendering of a phenomenon which refuses the 

 yoke of ordinary pliysical laws;" like Cabanis we may 

 say " that as the liver secretes bile, so does the brain 

 secrete th<mght." The same opinion is given by Voglit. 

 Moleschott says: "Tlumght is a motion of matter." 

 Buchner asserts that "the soul is a j)roduct of a pecu- 

 liar combination of matter — thought is emitted by the 



