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themselves have the benefit of this compliment. We are 
now told fortnightly, with an extra review on Saturdays, that 
Memory exists in every organic element of the human body, 
and that Nature leaves scars on our fingers, for example, in 
“remembrance” of the injuries she has sustained, and vin- 
dictively refuses to deposit normal tissue ! We mayfoiget. 
external or internal disease, but “ it will not forget us . 
Possibly, therefore, every other organic structure has its book 
of remembrances ; if so, what will betide the bald-pated Philo- 
sophers ? Organic registrations must be countless. It is 
not easy to admit these “ arguments ’’ to be /"controvertible 
reasons. Who or what , inter alia, is t e < w 1 (t 4 j 
forget “us”? — (Vide Lancet, March 26th, 1870, On the 
Refations of Body and Mind,” by Professor Maudsley.) It is 
the old, old story, that Life and Thought m Mankind at laige 
are but mechanical products of molecular machineiy. .... 
results from the Professor’s considerations, that there is no 
special faculty of memory; ergo, almost every possible 
the human mind, according to this sort of logic, is n 
more nor less than memory. No idea is ever lost it is reduced 
to equilibrium, and when latent is rendered active by Asso- 
ciation The anatomy of Man, we are further assured, under 
the heading of “academical” Science and Philosophy, is like 
a steam-engine with the fire out, and nothing m the boiler; 
but the body of living Man is a beautifully-formed machine, 
made up ofthose molecular properties, which, it is no less 
“rtl once lay with the world itself, potentially, m cosmic 
vapour 1 ° In other words, vital movements are mechanical 
movements, and mechanical movements are J ltal 
18. The Science of Anthropology, as.now taught, is neit 
more nor less than unmitigated Materialism— oui mos spm 
tual states are “but ” physical and chemical processes. Eve^ 
fact of human consciousness, whether m the domain of The gfit. 
Sensation, or Emotion, is “but” the corresponding result of 
a certain definite “ molecular ” condition of the cerebral organ , 
i e given the molecular state of the brain the co ™spondmg 
thoulht may be scientifically inferred The growth of the 
animal body is “mechanical,” says Professor Tyndall, and 
Thought, as exercised by man has its correlative m the 
physics of Brain, and the materialist will be able « 
to maintain this scientific position against all attacks. 
modification of pithecoid form, Man ^s probably 
what he is, says Professor Huxley. -*-“® n- ±. 
Races of Men, we are assured, fashioned flint axes, an • 
Sives, and Une skewers of the same pattern as thosefabri- 
cated by the “ lowest ” savages at the present day, 
