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another morbidly, yet under the same conditions in 

 both cases? If not let the objectivist explain the enig- 

 ma, for I know of no parallel to such a uniform cause 

 having such diversity of sequence in the whole range 

 of psychological physiology. The intermittent charac- 

 ter of a disease caused bv morbific o-erms, the invasion 

 of which nature is struggling against principally by 

 excretion, becoming alternately victim and victor, is 

 not a parallel example to permanent disease of an or- 

 gan. How often do we see in asylums the partial or 

 complete return to reason in a dying hour? We have 

 clearer answers to questions, and more intelligent con- 

 versations than at any time during the insane period. 

 This lucidity may continue until the final capitulation 

 is about to take place. If mentality be a resultant of 

 molecular action, then is seen the strange anomaly of 

 the secreting cause becoming gradually feebler, yet at 

 the same time the effect increasinof in stren^rth. The 

 fountain has risen above its source. The psychical 

 energy increases in the inverse ratio to the power of the 

 brain to perform its egoistic functions. Nor can it be 

 compared to the spasmodic eftbrts of expiring nature, 

 because we have to do with a permanently diseased 

 l)rain which can not give normal results from an abnor- 

 mal source. 



Consciousness remains with us during* all the muta- 

 tions of our physical system. In that time millions of 

 brain molecules have grown to maturity — jjroduced. 

 their like — and havins; become an excretion are cast 

 out as useless drones from the busy hive. Each parent 

 monad has left to its child, as a legacy, a biography of 

 the past. Each succeeding generation has garnered 

 permanent and fleeting impressions to be harvested and 

 ai)propriated by the living tenant as emergencies arise. 

 The older the facts of memory in childhood the more 



