Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-03-12
faund in animals next below. Tbese vs:

found in animals next below. These va
| rious improvements, gradual y succeed
| ing esch other, are accompanied by
physical developments equally marked.
| (Dr MssO } Even John Stuart Mill
admits that "the laws OF mind may
ne CeTiva.ive laws, resulting from
ruth, therefore, NAY ultimately
depend ON physical conditions
Assuming, therefore, as an undeuisble
certainty tie existence Of PRINCIPLE Of
energy and motion, and the correlation
Of vital with mechanical forces, we are
led to another certainty-the existence
of q spiritual principle OF diffsreltia-
ton and harmony, which We call mind
Thus mind is not substance, but it IL the
law OF substance; it is not force, but the
revealer Of force; it is not thought, but
the consciousness of thought. Mind"
| ;ays DR.. Carpenter, sis the sole and
single source OF power" and the worlds
activities are but the reflection Of the
divine will. No proof of the souls i'm
mortality is so strong as that drawn
from the necessary simplicity and eter-
! atty Of al the principles Of force. Moth
| Dg bears witness 80 powerfully 10 the
majestic reality of q ID as the spects-
Gle Of those diVersities, all harmonious,
which rule the infinite range Of forces,
and bind ia unity the ordered pulses Of
the werld. IN. Papillon.) Mind and
Dcdily life are thus bus subdivisions OF
life in general. The days of the minor
riuity, says DR.. FothergiIl-the soul,
he mind, and the body-are mum
oered; and the doctrines OF innate ideas
intuition by the gift of God, supernat-
ural revelations and mysticisms are
consigned to the limbo of effste specula,
tons. 1t is but recently, with the ad
vent OF physiological psychology, that
We have come to understand 10 its full
ness the implication contained in the old
sd8gs, mems SdylG in cOrDore SGRO (asOund
mind in healthy body )-of a now well.
established physiological fact that men
tai activity is distinctly physical pro
cess-a relation between thought and
the condition of the brain; and Jeremy
Taylor anticipated this fact in his well.
knoWn apothegm, "EveIy meal is
rescue from one death and lays up foI
anotoer; and while We think thought
we die" II is in the establishment OF
the correlation Of vital with mental
forces that the law of association re-
ceives Its development, and quantita-
tive rather than qualitative distraction
is demonstrated IS existing between in.
stiDct and intelligence. All Intelligent
actions, except those which are merely
initiative, must in the first instance be
instructive or relative. "Chere Isl" says
DR.. Draper, nosuch thing as spontane
Gus or self-Originated thought Every
intellectual act is the consequence OF
some preceding act; it comes into exist
~ A0nootLEno, Hnf
gone before. A shadow never falls upon
4 wall without leaving thereupon per-
meuent trace, and it is one OF the fdRc
tons of the Vascular-neTvous mater a
to retain Re lies OF impressions brought
to it by the organs of sense; thus mem
ory is but an effort OF the mind in con-
templating these gang!ionic impres
~ru,,." And here we have the key to 5
solution Of the vexed prop,-ru " y. the re-
lation between intelligence and instinct.
Professor LIE C0nte, in an in
VestigstiOh Of this telativity, estsb |
fishes the propositions that in. |
telligence works By experience,
and is wholly dependent on indivi iual |
experince for the wisdom OF its actions, |
and is, therefore, variable, that il, diff |
ereDt in different individuals, and also |
III DlON6bto ia kAlG ltlS vi TIE luudI |
by experience; but instinct belongs to |
the species, and is therefore the same in 1
ell individuals, and unimprOvabls with |
age and experience, while instructive
conduct ia predetermined in wisdom by
brain-struethre. The experience anG
habits of one generation become fixed |
and permanently petrifed il the brain.
structure OF succeeding generations, con-
Hinherited experience" or IN
stinct. It is, therefore, difficult to IN.
derstand wherein "mind stands apart,
defying any analysis that chemistry, OF
physics, or history, can offer. Scientists
and philosophers ss3erts the superin-
tendent, ''admlt the presence and
power Of mind in man." but in q sen
tence following are 8ccttssd Of casting
of "the sublime theory OF intelligence"
Ii by Intelligence" is meant, to use the
words Of Paul ETman, ''aCGS hier i'm
Rd1,7ae Scukt-the spectre that haunts
the world OF matter-a vast spiritual
existence pervading the universe, even
rs there is q vast existence Of matter
it DANA; spirit which, as
3 Great German tells US, ''sleeps in the
stone, dreams in the animal, awakes in
man." then sc enlist and philosopher
will admit the presence OF this IncOm.
Life; admitting, and,
IN addition, asserting that it lies
beyond analysis-an insoluble enigma
OuL no casting off," and, more than
my others, do scientists and phiIoso-
pliers acknowledge "tbat piece of divin.
ty that is in us-that something that ,
vas before the elements, and owes no
to the sun; ~ this thinner picture ! :
If the universe, and, by the grace Of ,
sod, dream, as it were, Of that God :
himself" 1t is true that recent investi. {
cations establishing the interdependence !
If mental phenomena with vital forces /
of molecular change in the brain cor =
with changes in mental {
taTes-is seeking to const-ue all mental p
in terms Of molecular motion; '
till, should this psychological research 0
]e ever so far extended that we may IN :
lerstsnd mental phenomena frJm their .
mental conditions, it does not fol- a
Ow that it can ever be established I
hat these phenomena are the pro- n
'uct Of material conditions. Be- {
ore the mystery Of hon the simplest \
sociological phenomena of sensation, b
or will are evolved from d
Molecular activities, We stand stock 8,
till, 90 Du B,iS.ReymOnd expresses a
!. Admitting, with Mr.. Huxley, thar n
thought is the xpr5ssiOn of mole culsT t.
hangts in that matter of life which is n
ne source of other vital pherO nens,n y
nd We are still as far a. ever from COM d
tie cauSd e6fcie1ls to which il
lese changes are due. What cOnceiv- NJ
BILE connection subsiststs between def a
lite movements OF definite atoms in my .,
rain" says Du Bois-ReymOnd, ION the or
ne hand, and, on the other hand, such n,
rimordial, inGetinsble, undeniab!e facts OF
J these: [ feel pain or pleasure; ex
srience sweet tsste, or smell a rose,
hear an organ, or see something red?
It is absolutely and forever in,
that a number of carbon, NJ
ydrogen, nitrogen AID oxygen atoms
lould be otherwise than Indifferent as th
their own position and mOtiOn-past, d
esent or future. 1t is utterly incOn- eo
ivable how consciousness should re. til
7ndall adds: GA man can say, Il feel, al
hink, love- but how does conscious, 81
,ss infuse itself into the problem? The isl
.ssage from the physics of the brain to Ci
e corresponding facts Of consciousness "a
unthiDkabie. Granted that definite lei
ought and definite molecular action ",
the brain occur simultaneously, we A
not possess the intellectual organ, nor co
parently any TudimsDt OF the organ, ne
nich would enable US to pass, by pro- co
80 of reasoning, from one to the other az
ley appear together, but we do not he
low why" And again, quoting from in
r. Tyndall: "fhose who nOld the doc bu
ne OF evolution have as little fellow In
ip with the atheist who sSyE there is br
God, as with the theist who PROCESSES N!
know the mind of God. Two things,' ale