Its Composite and Dissoluble Nature. 179 



comes what we term educated, cultivated, refined, by a 

 continuous process from infancy to old age. 



The cells of the brain not only interlace, but act recip- 

 rocally one to another and reflexly, setting up a well-nigh 

 inconceivably delicate form which remains in situ during 

 the individual life, or is but slowly modified by fresh acces- 

 sions of knowledge from without. Each cell neuron of 

 the colony-blende is thus enabled to profit by the expe- 

 rience of the whole and is formed, moulded, modified by 

 the greater life and attainments of the whole organism. 



High degrees of intelligence are thus reached, the intel- 

 lects of great thinkers, our Darwins, Weissmanns, Hux- 

 leys, Haeckels, Gladstones, Spencers. In each we have 

 an inherited mass or colony of neurons of exceptionally 

 good quality and then, personally, a continuous develop- 

 ment which, could it be displayed microscopically, would 

 exhibit organization of such delicacy and complex arrange- 

 ment, and yet such permanence through life, as would go 

 far to set psychology on a new basis, and prove nothing 

 less than a revelation of Nature's method of producing a 

 human soul ! 



Upon this whole delicate organization and upon nothing 

 less, personality depends from moment to moment, and 

 from year to year. It is only by virtue of this mazy 

 organization of living matter that intellect exists or can 

 go on existing. 



What happens at death ? 



