110 CUTHBERT COLLINGWOOD, ESQ., M.A., B.M. (OXON.), ETC. 
And where have these faculties their seat and dwelling- 
place? Wereply, in the subtle and inmost recesses of Man’s 
nature, which are quite secure from the scalpel of the anato- 
mist, and from the microscopic investigations of the physio- 
logical histologist. Yet must they energise through the 
instrumentality of the cerebral organisation. Their expression 
may, therefore, be dulled by a defect or flaw of cerebral 
structure, which is absolutely imperceptible and inappreciable 
to the anatomist, it may be by some mere vice of constitu- 
tion, whether natural or acquired; or they may be altogether 
veiled and darkened by a more palpable imperfection. Yet 
the faculties are there, as a man’s birthright, only they can- 
not find vent through the medium of the imperfect organ 
or instrument ; and they must remain numbed and dormant 
until the unfavourable conditions are changed, and they are 
set free from their prison-house. 
But no man can ever know and realise the extent and 
scope of his faculties. These which he most calls into 
exercise will be ever the most apparent and the most active ; 
but he may, and probably does, possess others of which he 
little dreams, and the conditions for the development of 
which never arise in his present state. Itis probable, indeed, 
that the highest conceivable subtlety of a merely material 
brain-organ may be insufficient to energise certain faculties, 
which therefore can never be capable of manifesting them- 
selves in our present condition, but are reserved for a higher 
sphere of action, And if this suggestion be reasonable, we 
may hereafter be endowed with powers whose development 
will be entirely dependent upon being set free from the 
grossness of a material organ, however subtle a terrestrial 
medium, however delicately organised and adjusted. 
Phenomenal manifestations of intellectual power are 
indeed not unusual, and seem to indicate that the special 
faculty thus exalted may be due to a high degree of develop- 
ment of the special region of the brain which is the seat of 
the energising power of that special faculty. For doubtless 
each region of the brain is correlative with certain groups of 
intellectual manifestations; but we have yet to learn how 
far localisation and differentiation extend. But while there 
must be a limit to the possibilities of the manifestation of 
faculty through a mere material organ, such as the brain, 
ignoble in Reason! how poor and cribbed in faculties! in form and 
moving how akin to animals ! in action how like an ape ! in apprehension 
how like a d-o-g !” 
