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Aetherios dixere: deum namque ire per omnes 

 Terrasque tractusque maris coelumque profundum 

 Quemque sibi tenues nascentem arcessere vitas 

 Scilicet hue reddi deinde ac resoluta referri 

 Omnia nee morti esse locum sed viva volare 

 Sideris in numerum atque alto succedere coelo." 



Georgicon Lib. IV, 219—227. 

 "Modi are to the substance what waves are to the sea. Shapes 

 that perpetuali}' die away that never are", and again one may allude 

 to the views of Leibnitz viz: "that body does not act on mind, but 

 that the phenomena of both are so harmonized in the order of things 

 — two clocks keeping the same time." Perhaps Leibnitz meant the 

 relationship to be that of hyaloplasm to spongioplasm, the former 

 being the highly vital parts. Hegel and his school emphasized the 

 triple nature of the mental phenomena, a somewhat similar arrange- 

 ment is admitted in the physical and biological sciences. The phono- 

 graph and wireless telegraph apparatus serve to illustrate the subject 

 from without. It does not follow that excitation, if transmissible, 

 would be rendered in the same terms in two cerebra. The student 

 who neglected morning chapel, said that the service was held too late, 

 when the Dean asked him whether he found the hour too early. 

 Queen Elizabeth remarked that Bacon's house was too small; Bacon 

 said her Majesty had made him too great for his house. x4nger in 

 one person may be very short madness, imitated by another it may 

 mean even murder. One uses cells for a galvanic battery in number 

 proportionate to the electromotive force sought, arranged in a suitable 

 way to answer the requirements. One should, perhaps, endeavour to 

 obtain some evidence of the transmissibility of neuromuscular move- 

 ments by setting a large body of men to perform evolutions (all of 

 the same kind and synchronously) and then at a distance of many 

 miles further west seek for the effects (if any) on sleepers and others. 

 Perhaps some may be found responsive, the reflexes being exaggerated. 

 Consecutive or collateral thought, of course, as also synchronous 

 (perhaps sub -conscious) thought may account for -straight'''' dreams, 

 which are for children, savages, and others, often very real. The 



