JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 
NOVEMBER, 1885. 
I. THE INTERBOND OF THE SEEN AND 
THE UNSEEN. 
Collated by the Author of “ Scientific Materialism.” 
(Continued from page 579.) 
“ There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are 
dreamt of in your philosophy.” — Hamlet, 
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Ip 1 n DTI WILL now illustrate the connection between the 
1 1TL internal through the organisation with the ex- 
ternal, — i.e., what the mind is dependent upon to 
generate ideas.” Forms reflect upon the mind, which re- 
flection is the idea. Sounds convey a peculiar vibration, 
which undulates that portion of the mind with which they 
come in contact. “ This vibration is the idea.” Words are 
the agents of ideas. “ The idea once created is irrevocable, 
and association of the mind with the form external excites 
and developes the idea first established.” Hence learning is 
a frequent repetition of the association of ideas, “ and thus 
confirms the knowledge through the faculty, or medium 
termed association, or imitation.” All ideas are dependent 
on exciting causes ; yet every thought is an unrestrained 
production of a mind aCted upon by forms, reflections, 
sounds, associations, or imitation, “and may be termed ir- 
resistible impressions.” The cause is invisible ; it is not 
the forms, &c., which produce, but the impression which 
they produce upon the mind. “ There is, first, the cause ; 
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