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ing, judging and willing, are carried on in the superior brain, by which 
man is distinguished aboye all other creatures. Physiologists speak of 
the sensorium or central ganglia, below the cerebrum, as the common 
centre of sensation; but our own consciousnes when thinking, and our 
penal headaches for over-much thinking, plainly say to us that the crown- 
ing and frontal hemispheres of the brain are the seat of thought and 
mind. It is the mind in that little space that rules the world. 
The reflective anatomist as well as others, is struck with wonder when 
contemplating the human brain as the seat of thought and sovereign will ; 
yet as poet he must speak figuratively. He exclaims as he looks upon it, 
‘Then mark the cloven sphere that holds 
All thought in its mysterious folds: 
That feels sensation’s faintest thrill 
And flashes forth the sovereign will; 
Think on the stormy world that dwells 
Locked in its dim and clustering cells! 
The lightning gleams of power it sheds 
Along its hollow glassy threads !”’ 
—Dr. 0. W. Holmes. 
Such combination of body, life, mind and feeling, are indeed, more won- 
derful than miracle, and justify the anatomist and poet in his prayerful 
conclusion : 
“O Father! grant Thy love divine 
To make these mystic temples thine.’’—Ib. 
The great fact is never to be forgotten, that the body is fed only by 
material food ; that the brain and the nerves are also fed as the residue of 
the body from the living blood; but that the mind is ever and only can be 
fed by immaterial perceptions of outward and inward material things, 
and as it is self-fed by its own immaterial thoughts and inherent emotions. 
How amply the physical brain is fed by the blood, is apparent when physi- 
ologists tell us, that its proportion to the whole body is as one to thirty- 
six, while one-fifth of the whole volume of blood is in circulation there. 
There is another test we may also daily observe in others and in our- 
selves, showing that mind and body are not alike nourished, namely, that 
the gross feeding that expands the body, does not enlarge, but obscures 
the mind. That the mind is usually clearest and most effective when 
men are abstemious and temperate, provided only they eat enough to 
keep up their normalstrength. Many bright minds that have enlightened 
the world, would never have been its shining lights, had not their bodies 
been frail and their physical organization delicate ; indicating, not that 
the body and mind were one, but that the body’s grossness had not oyer- 
laid or obstructed the free thinking and reasoning mind. 
The power of mental consciousness and his capacity to think, constitute 
man’s great distinction. Mind makes him man, and lifts him above all 
other creation. It is the mind that yields him all his purest and truest 
pleasures. We say that the eye sees, andthe earhears. These senses are 
but inlets to outward sights and harmonies ; it is only the mind that per- 
