Prof. Owen on Life and Species. 67 
‘sin,’ or ‘death’ ? That is to say, arguments based upon scrip- 
tural expressions of thought-force may be drawn from the like 
personifications of the aberrations and cessation of such force. 
88, d 
kinds and degrees of mental manifestations are the result of 
corresponding affections and changes of structure of the brain. 
How the brain works in producing thought or soul, is as 
much a mystery in man as brutes—is as little known as the 
way in which ganglions and nerves produce the reflex phe- 
nomena simulating sensation and volition. 
But it is a gain to be delivered from the necessity of specu- 
ting where the ‘soul’ wanders when thought and self-con- 
Sclousness are suspended ; or how it is to be disposed of until 
the ‘resurrection of the body,’ glorified or otherwise ; of which 
Teintegrated sum of forces ‘ soul’ will then, as now, be a parcel. 
If the physiologist and pathologist had done no more than de- 
Monstrate ‘the universal law of our being,’+ which cuts away 
the foundations of ‘ purgatory,’ or other limbo, from the feet 
of those who trade thereon,{ which makes ‘judgment’ follow 
death, without consciousness of a moment's interval,§ they 
would deserve the gratitude of the Christian world. : 
156, § 63. ‘In comparing present and future.’ 
