IN THE REALM OF MIND. 



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cult to understand or to believe than that the Mind, 

 as a whole, is connected with the Brain as a whole. 

 Whether it be so or not is a question purely of 

 observation and of fact. But this, at least, is cer- 

 tain, — that the different faculties and affections of 

 the Mind must be discriminated from each other 

 before it is possible to assign to them a local habi- 

 tation. The Mind must be mapped first, and then 

 its Organ. No additional knowledge is given to us 

 of any one mental faculty by proving that it is 

 connected with some special bit of the mysterious 

 substance of which that organ is composed. Love 

 is Love, and nothing else ; Hatred is Hatred, and 

 nothing else ; Reverence is Reverence, and nothing 

 else ; the pure intellectual perception of a Logical 

 Necessity is itself, and nothing else; — however 

 clearly it may be proved that each of these is a 

 function of some separate region of the Brain. 

 When the Phrenologist, taking in his hand a 

 human skull, and lifting its upper cover, tells us 

 that the oval of convoluted matter which is thus 

 exposed to view " manifests the moral sentiments," 

 what light does he throw on these ? The moral 

 sentiments !— what do these include ? The power 



