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without some corresponding facts respecting the 

 powers of Mind. Indeed, all vital phenomena of 

 this kind are in themselves necessarily phenomena 

 both of Body and of Mind. The close connexion 

 which exists between the two, and the inseparable 

 analogies which unite all their workings, render it 

 therefore almost certain that the Mind is to be re- 

 garded as having both kinds of movement which 

 the physical Organism possesses — that is, faculties 

 which are automatic in their action — and other 

 faculties which, though subject to direction by 

 the Will, yet work upon the materials presented 

 to them in a manner strictly intuitive and inde- 

 pendent of all experience. 



And as the abnormal phenomena of disease, or 

 of malformation, often throw an important light 

 on the structure of the Body, so do certain ab- 

 normal intellectual phenomena give us strange 

 glimpses occasionally into the powers of Mind. 

 Among those phenomena none are more curious 

 than the intuitive powers of numerical computation 

 which a few individuals have possessed. There 

 are well attested cases of this power in virtue of 

 which the mind reaches the result of difficult cal- 



