Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-05
THE HITMAN BRAIN.

IHE HUMAN BRAIN.
| The instrument with which the immor-
tai part within us reaches the material
world is the human brain. Thousands of
facts tell us that from that centre, through
what are called the nerves of special sense,
and also from the prolongation of its sub
stance which constitutes the spinal cord,
by numberless minute branches of nerves
to the remotest parts of the body, go the
telegraphic wires which bear the man
dates of the mind.
There has arisen at this day school Of
philosophers who aver that the mind is
the mere secretion of the brain force
and nothing more-expended in the act,
created anew for each operation, and ne
cessarily dying with the body that gives it
tion.
This specious philosophy, this glittering
solution of the complicated phenomena of
the mental world, making men the auto
mata of physical force, when pressed to its
logical end, knows no conscience, no right
or wrong, no Divine law, and, indeed, no
God, in all the universe; only the likes and
dislikes of atom and the blind WhirlWinds
of physical attraction.
The dream-for it is only dream-is
repeated throughout popular modern liter
ature as though it had really been accept
ed as truth by eminent leaders in medical
science.
But no, the mind that dWells within us
is spark of Divine essence destined to a
life beyond the grave. Did say that the
nerves were the telegraphic wires of the
system and the brain the central battery?
True, but the operator is the mind, sepa-
rate and independent from the machinery
at its command. The battery, which
sends forth currents of influence to the
farthest wires, when the connection is
unbroken, gives but the jangle of unintel-
ligent motion until the directing power of
the operator impresses thought upon its
quiverings, or directions upon its force,
and registers his will in ineligible Ian
guage.
The proposition assert is, that there is
no such thing as diseased mind where
the body is in perfect health, implying
the brain natural in size, unaffected in its
structure or functions by disease, and sup
piled with pure blood, UNMARRIED by excess
or diminution. The mems sct1aG always re-
sides in corpore sd1lo.
Let any one of these conditions be de-
stroyed by imperfect organization of the
brain at birth, or its abnormal develop
ment by mechanical injury to its vessels,
whether by violence or disease, or by pois-
oned blood circulating through its struct-
ure, and there comes period when thick
clouds envelop the spirit and obscure men
tai perception, or even directly interrupt
everyday intercourse with men and
things; so that by degrees and insensi-
BILE shades the victim falls into the cata-
logue of the insane.
Can the mind itself suffer disease? Then
it is pierced with mortal taint and will
surely die, beyond hope of resurrection.
Thousands of men come back to life and
happiness even after what some would call
the death of mind. Why are they not
new men, if the soul is a secretion of the
brain? How is it possible that each man
comes back to his own identity? Who
has ever found himself q new being, or re-
cognized another as such, gifted with a
separate and independent mind, after the
passage through a season of lunacy, even
of long years? Voice, expression, Ian
guage, views, tastes, education, whatever
individualizes or differentiates one man
from another comes back to stamp him as
such a creature Of God his Maker, and no
other one.-l Dr.. GrisSom.