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large fore-brain or cerebrum. That is the atoms com- 

 posing this part of the brain are changed in position in 

 relation to each other. Any change in position of mat- 

 ter, whether atom or planet, implies force as the cause 

 of motion. But while force may be changed in the mode 

 of its manifestation, it must still remain force or energy, 

 and can by no possible cause be changed into something- 

 else. This being the invariable case, it is utterly impos- 

 sible to conceive of or measure a thought or an emotion 

 in terms of force. Thus the statement that mind is a 

 function of brain is in direct opposition to the theory 

 of the Conservation of Energy. 



I have already said that all our perceptions are 

 presented to consciousness through the bodily senses. 

 These senses as parts of the body are finite and mortal 

 and, therefore, can have no claims to immortality. When 

 the body dies, the mind, so far as we have any positive 

 knowledge, ends also. In all that I have said thus far 

 I do not wish jou to understand me as offering a single 

 argument or a particle of proof against our possession 

 of an immortal soul. I only try to show that we can 

 know positively nothing concerning the soul, neither in 

 the affirmative or negative. I hope and believe fully in 

 a continued life after this one ends, and, although we can 

 offer no proofs of its existence, we should remember that 

 the negative of a proposition must not be assumed be- 

 cause of a lack of evidence unless that evidence is at- 

 tainable. 



We are now where we started, as we can know noth- 

 ing of an immortal soul possessed either by ourselves 

 or the dog. But there is another line along which we 

 can investigate the question as to ourselves and the ani- 

 mal world about us. If I were to say the soul was anal- 

 agous to the mind except that it was not connected with 

 the body I think most persons would agree with me. 

 Starting from that standpoint, if we confine our study to 

 mind we shall be on safe ground. Mind, we have with 

 us and can study it in all its various manifestations. I 

 believe that by nearly all of us the three words mind, 

 soul and spirit have a synonomous meaning, so that our 

 study of mind will be as nearly a study of soul as is pos- 

 sible to us. 



