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ceives and enjoys. The transporting prospect we look upon; the land- 
scape of lawn, trees, river and mountain; or the music that charms us 
with indefinable delight, are pleasures inherent in the mind, inborn of the 
soul. Led by the great dramatist, we willingly say with him, 
‘* Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music 
Creep into our ears: Soft stillness and the night 
Become the touches of sweet harmony !’ 
“Such harmony is in immortal souls.” 
And such inner sense of the beautiful; our moral sense ; our sympathy 
with our fellow beings ; our emotions in worship ; ‘‘our sense of an end- 
less being ;” are all inborn of the soul, and assure us ours is the harmony 
of ‘immortal souls.”’ Necker, statesman of France, also reassures us of 
what Shakespeare so beautifully said: ‘‘The whisper of the gales, the 
murmur of waters, the peaceful agitation of trees and shrubs, would con- 
cur to engage our minds, and affect our souls with tenderness, if our 
thoughts were elevated to one Universal Cause.’’ It is thus in ‘thought 
and emotion that alone we can rise to commune with our higher self, with 
the highest endowments of our friends, and with Deity. 
The materialist supposes he hasadvanced his theory when he tells us, that 
it has been found, after a speaker has used extraordinary mental exertions, 
an analysis of his urine shows an increase of phosphorus ; and this is in- 
ferred to be a material residuum of the speaker’s spent thoughts! The 
idea must be that phosphorus is the matter most likely to be mind. Let 
us apply another test, not material, to this supposed experiment: the 
scrutiny of the thinking mind itself. The exertions of the speaker were 
probably much more physical than mental, and the result, if true, would 
be more properly assignable to physical causes. The ideas of the speaker 
are commonly formed in advance, in his study, in quietude, and the best of 
them in the wakeful hours of the night, when the body is in perfect repose. 
The delivery of them so far as the intellect is tasked, is more the easy ex- 
ercise of memory than the formation of new ideas. But to make the de- 
livery of them impressive, the orator exerts his voice ; gives violent play to 
the lungs ; uses earnest gesture ; accelerates the circulation ; produces 
perspiration ; and it would be an obvious consequence, even if there were 
no inerease of the phosphoric deposit, that as much of the water in the 
blood has gone out through the pores of the skin, which would otherwise 
have diluted the urine, that the phosphorus appearing in it is found in 
larger proportion. 
Though matter be essential to the growth and transmission of all life ; 
though matter and life be essential to sustain the mind in its manifesta- 
tions in this world ; all these three are of very distinctive nature. In the 
plant there is life, but no brain-or nerves, nor feeling or mind. These, 
therefore, are not necessary to the phenomenon of life. It is the nourished 
blood of other composition than vegetable protoplasm that must flow and 
bear the life-sustaining material of the animate being, and that for brain 
and nerves as well as the residue of the body. You may intercept the 
mind’s perception, aiid life will go on; but intercept the blood’s circula- 
