The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-07-26
FnEE MENrAL THOrGHT.
4 Long and Exhaustive Contribution
hy "Ixen w. Fern"


Our great thoughts. our great affec-
tions. the truths Of our lives. never leave
Us. Surely they cannot separate from
our consciousness. they shall follow it
whithersoever it shall go. and they are
of their nature divine and immortal
Thackeray.
After careful review Of man and his
makeup we have a classification of
three parts not distinct from each other
but existing in such interviewer relations
70 each other that it is very difficult
70 discern their exact relations and in
nuence.
The parts are: O.Physical or mate
rial; % mental or intellectual; 60 moral
or spiritual.
IN the physical man we have the body.
that which we see: all that we see of
man with the natural eye we call mate
rial because existing in form and space.
and is the avenue through which we be-
come acquainted with the other and
nobler parts OF man.
It is his instrument Of action. by which
he acts and makes himself known to his
fellow beings.
But in the mental we find the great
secrets Of mans life. II is generally
SpDhCH u dS the nlluQ. wherein resides
the lndWelling OF the soul. and is presi-
dent over the physical. finding cOnnec-
ton through the brain and nervous sys-
tenn Or. as if often said, the brain is
the seat Of the mind. which seems to be
a logical and correct conception. for we
find all inanimate, semi-Organic material
TO be dead and not gifted with brain ma
terial.
Divest an animal of it's brain faculties
and it is dead thing. nc more than the
insensible rock, proving that through
this channel comes life and action And
in studying the different forms of life
we find the higher we go the nearer we
come TO man: the higher. more compli-
Gated and intricated are the mental de-
velopments, and in man we find the
higher and nObler concepts of life which
are found IN none other forms Of life.
This higher form OF mind call the
intellectual or knowing powers; that by
which man delves into and studies out
the relations OF things, bringing them to
his understanding or conception, thus
knowing them in their relation to other
things known before.
The product Of this operation we call
thought-the active state Of the mind.
Outside of sound sleep we find thought
in continual action upon some subject
or object. IT is this that i am TO discuss.
How able / am 10 do so / know not, but
worthy subject is always worth an
effort
We find man seeks conception of truth
IN all things and all relations. whether
logical philosophical. scientific. social
or moral. OF any other forms that may
present themselves.
The mind continually seeks the truth
always investigating. experimenting and
reasoning out to find and know the
truth and basis Of things, and when the
mind has arrived a the basis or founda-
ton Of things, then will it be clear OF
superstition and doubt, and man may
be said to be free moral agent" one
OF free thought and not under the will
and dominion OF the things around him
Then will he not be "A slave longer TO
the bsser elements Of his own nature
but free moral man. apart from carnal
things living In the lofty plains of the
SOULS conception.
Let us take life that we see lived or
existed in about US. How few do we
find upon this higher plain Of living
totally loose from what's below
Here Is a man staggering and Keeling
about the street and finally falls into the
gutter. uttering horrible oaths and