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to reach forward and take perception of the picture truthfully, but takes 
it restored from its reversals by the convex lens to its true position, as 
yas the outside reality; up-side up, and right-side right, as is at once 
verified by the outreached hand. This power of perception is something 
more, and quite different from, the materially-fed animal or tree. There 
is no protoplasm here. The perceptions, and the ideas thus derived 
through all the several senses, are alike immaterial. Through the eye, 
the ear, the touch, taste, or smell, it is not perceptible, nor conceivable, 
that outside matter enters into the brain, yet less into the perceiving 
mind. It seems more reasonable to infer that the mind, which by its will 
can command and put in action the many muscles of the body, through 
the nerves of command that extend from the brain to them, can also reach 
through the distinct system of the nerves of sensation, wheresoever im- 
pinged upon, and take note of all sensation. Thus doing, the mind is 
filled with perceptions, conceptions, ideas. But when it perceives, thinks, 
compares its ideas, recalls its memories of long past years, forms new 
judgments, and the will sends forth its mandates, we are not to believe it . 
is carrying on material operations, before the muscles have acted; that 
thoughts are the bubblings or heavings of medullary matter; or as elec- 
tricity they are elicited by material friction ; or as the chemical corrosions 
of a battery; or are any other material production. There appears no 
evidence of any such processes, and these indicate no relationship with 
mental action. The memory of half a century ago cannot be a recalling 
of the matter of the brain of that time; the perceptions taken into the 
mind contained no material element, and the mind’s elaborations of im- 
material perception cannot be elaborations of matter, or produce mate- 
rial thoughts. Thought that ranges instantly over creation cannot be 
bound by the limitations of matter. Whatsoever is matter must have the 
bounds of matter; matter must have the properties of matter. Thoughts 
are not so subject. It is not in the nature of matter to range beyond 
itself ; to look to the past or future, or in imagination to survey the world 
and universe, and all that in them is. It is not in the nature of thought 
to be subjected to mechanical or chemical tests. If thoughts be but 
matter, they must be eliminated by the body’s ever busy absorbents as 
waste material, and there could be no memory of them; but the mind 
holds not her rich treasures by so slight a tenure. The intellect would 
then sit upon a throne whose base would be incessantly undermined ; nay, 
be rapidly swept away, since the new tissue supplied to the brain by the 
life-process would not replace the lost ideas. Immaterial thoughts, the 
immortal mind, is not carried off as waste and effete matter; as sewage 
through the sewers of the hody. Newly-deposited brain tissue from the 
blood would not restore thought that has vanished. Memories are not as 
characters written on the sand, to be washed out by ever refluent waves. 
The memories of a well-preserved old man, whose strength has not failed, 
nor his eye grown dim, make him a being compounded of the characters of 
three generations ; with mind informed by the pressures and knowledge of 
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