IN THE REALM OF MIND. 30I 



and never can mistake? In that low, pinched, and 

 retiring brow, we see instinctively that Reason can- 

 not hold her seat. These facts do not stand alone. 

 Not only are there some parallel facts, but all the 

 living world is full of them. The whole range 

 of animal creation, from Man down to the Reptile 

 and the Fish, testifies to the universal law of an as- 

 cending scale of mental capacity, being coincident 

 with an ascending degree of cerebral organisation. 

 No series of facts, tending to the establishment 

 of any physical truth, is more complete or more 

 conclusive than the chain which connects the func- 

 tions of the Brain with the phenomena of Mind. 



But here, again, let us beware of the fallacies 

 which may arise from a failure to recognise the 

 exact import of the words we use. In the ears 

 of many it sounds like Materialism to say that 

 Thought is a function of the Brain. But it has 

 been already shown in a previous chapter that 

 Function is merely the word by which we de- 

 scribe that work which any given piece of me- 

 chanism has been adjusted to perform. The 

 Power, or Force, which is developed through 

 means of an " organ," is not identical with that 



