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into conceptions which do not correspond to realities as they are 

 in themselves, but into ideas of the sublime, the beautiful, the 

 grotesque, the grand, etc. 



Experiment III. — Concentrate your mind for a moment on 

 yourself and you find that you are conscious of " I myself apart 

 even from the body. 



Thus I know that there is a co-ordinating presiding power some- 

 where within me. I am I. I am one ! 



When I was a student at the University of Edinburgh we of the 

 Natural History class had the freedom of the magnificent Museum 

 of Science and Art adjoining. 



I remember standing before the case where the material 

 constituents of a man were graphically displayed. A flask of 

 water and a handful of dirt, with the intimation that (roughly 

 speaking) 75 per cent, is water, and 25 per cent, are solids. Or, 

 to take a human weighing 12 stone, the water weighs 9 stone, 

 and the solids weigh 3. And that, the materialist says, is all ! 



That reminds me of the tale of the one-legged stork, or what the 

 fool answered Hamlet when he asked, " Who is to be buried 

 here ? " 



" One that was a woman ! 

 But, rest her soul, she is dead." 



Socrates, the wisest of the Greeks, knew better. Plato 

 relates his saying on the eve of his death : " You may 

 bury me if you can catch me " ; and " Do not call this poor 

 body Socrates. ... I would not have you sorrow at my 

 hard lot, or say at the interment ' Thus we lay out Socrates ' ; 

 or ' Thus we follow him to the grave and bury him.' Be of good 

 cheer : say you are burying my body only." 



Let us turn to the contemplation of our bodies for a moment. 

 The morphological unit is the cell ; and seeing the amount of 

 water we may well call the cells of our bodies aquatic cells ! 



Cienkowski made some interesting observations on the Vam~ 

 pyrella Spirogyrce. 



This is a minute red tinged aquatic cell without any apparent 

 limiting membrane, and quite structureless. This minute 

 blob of protoplasm will take only one kind of food, a particular 

 variety of algae, the Spirogyrse. He describes how this minute 

 cell creeps along the Confervse until it meets with its prey. He 

 never saw it attack any other kind of alg89, in fact, it rejected 

 Vaucheriae and (Edogonise put in its way. From his observations 

 Cienkowski writes : " The behaviour of these monads in their 



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