680 The Relations of Mind and Matter. [July, 
shirt and a kettle.” One of them replies, “Yes, my sister’s hus- 
band, that is good.” The presents are made the next morning at 
daybreak. The elder brother-in-law takes the horse, and the 
next receives the other gifts. At noon the widower washes his 
face and seeks another wife. 
In like manner when a woman loses her husband she must put 
earth on her face and fast during the day from sunrise to sunset 
for a year. She too can eat after sunset. At the end of the year 
she brings the gifts to the sister and younger brother of her hus- 
band. The sister gets the horse and the brother takes the rest. 
When a widower does not make presents to the kinsmen of his 
deceased wife before marrying again, he is sure to provoke the 
anger of his brothers-in-law. Formerly an old man took a gun 
and shot at his sister’s husband for this reason. And another 
man, when the Kansas were south of Council Grove, Kan., took 
a knife and gashed the head of the offending man in several 
places. Therefore widowers are accustomed to observe this rule 
of making presents, fearing the punishment which their offended 
affinities might inflict on them. 
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THE RELATIONS OF MIND AND MATTER. 
BY CHARLES MORRIS, 
(Continued from p. 542, June number.) 
IJ. THe Nervous MECHANISM. 
I all the higher animals a system of fibers and cell masses 
forms the channel by which external energy enters the body, 
and is distributed to its every organ and tissue. There is consid- 
erable variation of form and condition in this apparatus, but it is 
essentially a single organic agent, and includes the muscles as 
part of its organism. There is little apparent differentiation in 
the fibers. The main differentiation is in the endings of these 
fibers. Of these endings a very great number exist on the sur- 
face of the body, where they are variously modified and adapted 
to different purposes. These are the receiving organs, through 
whose aid external energy reaches the conducting fibers. They 
a are varied to receive every form of external energy. This energy 
beats upon the surface of the body in at least six forms or modes. 
: One of these is that known as ethereal vibration, through which 
far distant objects make themselves felt, Part of these vibrations 
b 
