ee 
YQ 
Price. } 386 [Mareh 1, 
apprehension, and, indeed, imperfect intellectual powers come from defects 
in the material instruments that serve it; but it is to be said that the 
defective structure produces deficient mind only in the sense that it has 
served the mind with imperfect perceptions, and hence with erroneous 
conceptions for its use. The nature of the mind may thus be the same in 
all, though furnished with perceptions and ideas, and exercised and de- 
veloped, as variously as the number of human beings. Then, again, the 
physical constitution and the animal passions, as well as the emotions and 
effections, social, moral and religious, will also differently affect the sensa- 
tions, perceptions, and powers of reasoning ; our thoughts, imaginations, 
judgment and character, and yet not be the mind that thinks, reasons, 
judges, and acts. They are most important parts of the being; but the 
physical can be no part of the mind. 
Yet Mr. Huxley tells us that our thoughts ‘‘are the expression of mo- 
lecular changes in that matter of life which is the source of our other 
vital phenomena ;’’ but he states no reason why this should be so; why 
matter or life, separately or together, should produce thoughts. He 
takes no notice of their contrary nature and operations from matter. 
Now, as we have seen, the process of life gives its own proofs, immeasur- 
ably surpassing in accuracy that of the microscope, as to all that enters 
into the composition of the plant or animal, as attested by products in- 
finitely varied, and thereby has proved all protoplasms not to be bases of 
the same nature, and that life uses other elements in her structures ; so 
the different natures and actions of thoughts and mind from life and mat- 
ter, must be taken as proof that they are not one with, nor can be pro- 
duced by matter, or yet be the life that has subjected matter to her uses. 
The life, instead of producing mind, is made subject to the mind; as to 
its uses, what it shall be; whether it be more worthless than the fester- 
ing charnel heap, or in purity, perfection, beauty, and glory, it shall be 
the fitting companion of immortal immaculate beings. 
Professor John Tyndall, always ardent and hopeful in scientific dis- 
covery, does not leave the materialist without hope in the future, yet 
does state this: ‘I do not think he is entitled to say that his molecular 
groupings and his molecular motions explain everything ; in reality they 
explain nothing.’ ‘The problem of the connection of body and soul is 
as insoluble in its modern form as it was in the prescientific ages.” 
“The passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of 
consciousness is unthinkable.’’ (Fragments of Science, 119.) True, the 
manner of the connection is unthinkable, but the fact of such connection 
between very dissimilar things, all must admit who do not deny the evi- 
dences of their senses, the proofs of experiment, and of the mind’s testi- 
mony unto itself; and the higher significance of mind and emotion seems 
equally obvious. 
The mind is placed in closest alliance with the body, but is of different 
constituency and power. Set over the body to rule it, her throne is in the 
brain, whither the nerves of sensation are ever giving information from 
without and within; whence her judgments are ever issued, and executed 
through the nerves of command. Would you liken this to the telegraph ? 
