THE 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCK. 
MARCH, 1883. 
I. THE BRAIN THEORY OF MIND AND 
MATTER.* 
By Constance Arden. 
“ The Vedic poets dimly recognised their Gods as only symbols of 
the ultimate power that manifests itself in the world, — the Atman or 
Self — the Self of all things — the Self in which each individual must 
find rest.” — Max Muller, India , What can it teach us ? 
Co 
f T is not seemly that an artist who has painted any part 
of a picture, even though his share be confined to the 
back-ground or the accessory figures, should present 
himself as a critic of the completed work, nor that one 
member of a Beaumont and Fletcher partnership should 
undertake to point out the merits and defedls of a jointly- 
written drama. Yet, if the pidture or the play deals with 
some forgotten legend, or shadows forth some unfamiliar 
truth, nothing can be more natural than that its meaning 
should be clearly and publicly set forth by one of its 
fashioners. What is permissible in the field of art may 
become imperative in the region of scientific verity, where 
the substance of the work is everything, and the style 
nothing, save as a more or less efficient vehicle for the con- 
veyance of ideas to the understanding. I need therefore 
not apologise for this brief exposition of the main thesis 
contained in a brochure to which I am one of the contri- 
butors. 
* What is Religion ? a Vindication of Free Thought, by C. N. Annotated 
by Robert Lewins, M.D. With an Appendix on Hylo-Idealism ; or, the 
Brain Theory of Mind and Matter, the Creed of Physics, Physic, and Philo- 
sophy. London : W. Stewart and Co., 41, Farringdon Street, E.C. 
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