Its Composite and Dissoluble Nature. 171 



In truth, it is time to cease speaking of the human 

 intellect as a psychip integer, an indissoluble unit of in- 

 telligence. Never was there a doctrine more at variance 

 with the facts, or founding in greater ignorance of the 

 human brain. 



A Society for Psychical Research which bases its 

 investigations on the assumption of a detachable psyche, 

 goes wrong at the outset, and from the very nature of 

 things will wander in darkness and meet with little 

 success in its quest. 



Human personality can now be resolved into its sepa- 

 rate cell sentiences, each a cell personality. We are able 

 to show how the cells (neurons) unite, by what means 

 the greater personality (soul) is brought into being and 

 maintained from moment to moment and from j-ear to 

 year, and also what physical steps and events are asso- 

 ciated with either the temporary, or the eternal cessation 

 of that personality. There is no longer excuse for ignor- 

 ing these facts, or for teaching or assuming that self-con- 

 sciousness is an infrangible unit, that lives " unscathed 

 amidst the crash of worlds, untouched by the death of 

 matter itself." Such " long bow " may do for sermons to 

 hopelessly indoctrined sectaries, but has no place in mod- 

 ern physiology. Not " the crash of worlds," merely the 

 impact of a cobble on the human cranium will cause the 

 sentient neurons to retract their interlaced filaments, for a 

 few moments it may be, or for hours, or forever. Self- 



