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Show 168 MENTAL CONSTITUTION OF ANI~IALS. What has chiefly tended to take mind, in the ey~s yf learned and unlearned, out of the range of nature, Is It~ apparently irregular and wayward character. How dif· confessedly received from God the power of experiencing, jn con· sequenc~ of impressions from the earlier modifications of matter, certain consciousnesses called sensations of the same 1 Is not, therefore, the wonder of matter also receiving the consciousnesses of other matter called ideas of the mind a wonder more fiowing out of and in analogy with all former wonders, than would be, on the contrary, the wonder of this faculty of the mind not fiowing out of any faculties of matter ? Is it not a wonder which, so far fro~ rlestroying our hopes of immortality, can establish that doctrine on a train of inferences and inductions more firmly estab lished and more connected with each other than the former belief • can be, as soon as we have proved that matter is not perishable, but is only liable to successive combinations and decombinations 1 " Can we look further back one way into the first origin of mat· ter than we can look forward the other way into the last develop· ments of mind? Can we say that God has not in matter itself laid the seeds of every faculty of mind, rather than that he has made the first principle of mind entirely distinct from that of matter 1 Cannot the firsf cause of all we see and know have fraught matter it•elf, jl"om its very beginning, with all the atf1·ibutts necessa'ry to dtvelop into m,:nd, as well as he can have from the first made the attribnt~s of mind wholly different from those of matter, only in order afterwards, by an imperceptible and incomprehensible link, to join the other two together? h ,. ,. [The decombination of the matter on which mind restsJ is this a r~ason why mind must be anuihilated 1 Is the temporary reverting of the mind and of the sense out of whieh that mind de· velops, to their original component elements, a reason for think· ing that they cannot again at another later period, and in another higher globe, be again recombined, and with more splendor than before? Jf. + The New Testament does not after death here pro· mise us a soul hereafter' unconnected with matter, and which has no connection with our present mind--a soul independent of time and space. That is a fanciful idea, not founded on its expressions, when taken in their just and real meaning. On the contrary, it promises us a mind like the present, founded on time and space ; since it is, like the present, to hold a certain situation in time, and a certain locality in space. nut it promises a mind situated in por· tions of time and of space different from the present, a mind coruposed of elements of matter more extended, more perfect, and more glo· rious: a mind which, formed of materials supplied by different globes. iR consequently able to see further into the past, and to think further into the future, than any mind here existing: a mind which, from the partial and uneven combination incidental to it on this globe, will be exempt from the changes for evil, to which, on the present globe, mind as well as matter is liable, and will only thenceforth experience the changes for the better which matter more justly poised, will alone continue to experience: a mind which, no longer fearing the death, the total decompositiou, to which it is subject on this globe, will thenceforth continue last an~ immortal.''- HOPE, on the Origin and P1·ospects of Mar 18&1. l\t.ENT AL CONSTITUTION 0"" A .1! NIMAL!. 169 fer~nt the manifestations in d"ffi . ble in all !-at one time so I l erent beings! how unsta-impulsive r It seemed im c~bm, at another so wild and and aberra~t could b tpofssi le tha{ anythinLl" so subtle . e par o a system th 9 of whiCh are regular it and . . . ' e tna1n featu1 es · Jarity of mental pheno~en . plelts.IOn. But the irregu·l 1A) G \Ve give up the Individual a IS do~ r In appearance. When v much uniformity of result 'a a~ a <e t~e mass, we find as phenomena. The irreo-ularits J~ an! ot er class of natural as t!I~t of the weath~r NY Is exactly ?f the same kind the weather of to-morro.w. b~t ~an can ~ay w ha~ may be falls in any particular plad . he ~anhty of.rain which the same., as the uantit e 10 . any ve :years Is precisely years at the same qlace Y which f~lls. I~l any other five possible to predicft of· Thus, ~hile It Is absolutely im-next year he will comml~~ o~e r.~n.chm~n that during about one in every six hun~ I~e, I dIs quite certain that people will do so becau .re an fifty of the French has generally bee~ about s:h If past years the proportion crime in relation to the t a atmt?unt, t~e tendencies to invariable over a sufficient!m\vidion~ being ev~rywhere ~lso, the number of ersons tit{ . e I ange of time. .so ~n London ior bein~ drunk ande~.In ·~hafge by the police Is, week by week b a near! . ISOI er y o~ the streets, that the inclinatio~ to drin) ~ntform qu.anhty, sh?wing mass about the same reo- ·~ ~ ~xcess Is always In the temptations or stimul~tiOl~sa~o tl ~Ing. had t.?·the e~isting and oversights are of regul . 1Is VIce. Even mistakes in the post-offices of J aro-e . :I. recurrence, for it is found 1.ers put in without add~ Ibe~ that the number of let- Statistics has made out an esses Is ye.ar. by year the same. wide range with recrard t equally tsbnct regularity in a the mind, 'and the 0doch·fn~aF!u~~ ~r thing~ concerning pr.oduced a scheme which rna e u~on It h~s lately With surpr1'se It Y well stu ke the Ignorant · was proposed t bl' a society for ensurin the inte .. · o est a Ish in London collectors, and all gsuch f gr :.ty of. clerks, secretaries, cbli·ged to find securit fo. unc wnane~ as are usually hands in the course 0~ b 1 ~oney passing through their highest character as an ~siness. A gentleman of the following terms: " If a t~~u~~r.;~ sfoke of, the plan in the club together to indemnif t1 n. Janke~·s. clerks were to ment of one pound a eaT. e 1eir secur:ties, by the paysecurity for 500l it ")' b .ach, and 1f each had glven ( ., Is o vwus that two in each vear 14 .J |