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and perpetuated for hundreds of years ; madness, even to the 
nightly howling and barking, like dogs; hare- lip, &c. ; squint- 
ing; “ horns ” and “ tails , 1 93 with spotted skins, covered from 
head to foot with long silky hairs, like those of Pithecus 
Satyrus , and of a reddish-brown colour, too ; club-foot, 
hunchback, and the gift of second sight ; physical and moral 
diversities, moreover, surpassing in extent those founded by 
the great families of ancient Rome; some men have skins 
like the bark of a tree, whilst the common integument of 
others resembles the pachydermatous covering of the elephant, 
or rhinoceros, looking and rustling like the bristles of a hedge- 
hog or the quills of a porcupine. Some are giants, whilst 
others are dwarfs. Many girls, not Welsh, fast for fifty days ; 
many boys sleep for a yet longer period. Some anthropo- 
logical specimens live in the hollow of a stone, and subsist 
mostly upon dirt. Must we, therefore, deem it unequivocally 
true, that millions of years ago primeval man walked on all 
fours, and arrived at perfection by eating pipeclay ? 
12. Animals exist without any central organ of the nervous 
system that can be either scientifically or truthfully called 
Brain, and yet are endowed with unequivocal mental phe- 
nomena. To such an extent is this the fact, that bodies may 
be divided into several distinct and independent portions, still 
each separate and detached part is capable of manifesting 
special will, special faculties, and special desires, even when 
the mental principle, which is certainly not of an exclusively 
material nature, has been divided and subdivided over and 
over again. Brain, ganglions, or nervous cords ; and what is 
more, even nervous matter diffused among the granulated 
bodies which form animal structure in some gelatinous zoo- 
phytes, afford no adequate solution of the scientific difficulty 
in which the advocates of an exclusive physical basis of Life 
and Mind find themselves, on this and many other occasions. 
Seeing these things are so, as a matter of incontestable fact, 
derived from philosophical experiments, after removing the 
cerebral hemispheres, and scientific observations upon animals 
yet lower in the scale of animated nature, how fare the state- 
ments of Professor Tyndall and others, so industriously cir- 
culated all over the kingdom, that Mind is known to Man 
“ only ” as dependent upon the Physics of the Brain, and that 
with this fact before him the infidel is secure in his position 
against all attacks ? Sensori-motor functions prove conclu- 
sively that Mind has not its only seat of action in the Brain 
itself ; the mental principle is assuredly divisible in Planaria, 
Polypi, and Annelida ; and, moreover, the Naides and Nereides 
propagate their species by spontaneous division. The truth 
