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Show ' . ~ '• ,. . . . . ,. .. " :if;'! u ~ :. 168 MENTAL CONSTITUTION Of' ANI!\fALS· What has chiefly tended to take mind, in the ey~s .<•f learned and unlearned, out of the range of nature, IS ~tg apparently irregular and wayward character. How d1f· confessedly received from God the power of e~peri~ncing! in con· sequenc~ of impressions from the earlier modificatiOns of matter, certain consciousnesses called sensations of the same? Is not, therefore, the wonder of matter also reeeiving the consciousnes.ses of other matter called ideas of the mind a wonder more ftowmg out of and in analogy with all former wonders, th3:n would be,_ on the contrary, the wonder of this faculty of the mmd n~t ftow1~g out of any faculties of matter? Is it ~ot a wonder ~h1ch, so iar frotl!.. O.estroying our hopes of immortality'· can establish that doctrine on a train of inferences and induct10ns 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 p~ris~able, but is only liable to successive combinations and decombmabons l " 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 ev<•ry faculty of mind, rather than that he has made the first principle of mind entirely distinct from that of matter 1 Cannot the first cause of all we see and know have fraught matter it•elf, from its very beginning, with all the atf1·ibutts necessa·ry to dtvelop into mi.nd, as well as he can have from the first made the attribut~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 1 " ,.. .. [The decombination of the matter on which mind restsj is this a r~ason why mind must be annihilated? Is the temporary reverting of the mind and of the sense out of which that mind dt! ... Telops, 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 '1 "' .. The New Testament does not after death here pro· mise us a soul hereafter' unconnected with matter, and which haa no connection with our present mind--a soul independent of time and space. That is a f~nciful 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 pnr· tions of time and of space different from the present, a mind co111posed of elements of matter more extended, more perfect, and more glorious: a mind which, formed of materials supplied by different globes. iR consequently aule to see further into the past, and to think further into the future, than any mind here existing: a miud 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 decomposition, to ~hich it is subject on this globe, will thenceforth continue last an<f 1mmortal.''-Ho!'E, on the Origin and P·rospects of Mar 1831. ME:NT A.L CONSTITUTION OF .ANIMAL!. 169 ~fleer ~nt the manifestations in d'ffi . in all !-at one time so I erent beings! how unsta-tmpulsive ! It seemed im c~lm, at another so wild and and aberrant could be partpofssrble tha{ anything so subtle . o f w h.t c h are regularity anod a s. ys.t e.m ' the tn atn lr eatul·es . Jarity_ of mental phenomena i pielis.wn. But the irregu~ 1,{) G we give up the Individual as do~ I Ill hppearance. vVhen v much uniformity of result' ~ a {e t e mass, we find as phenornena. The irregular~s 1 ~ any other class of natural as tlu~t of the weath =-r NY Is exactly of the same kind the ~eather of to-mor~o·w. b o man can ~ay wha~ tnay be falls In any particular pl ' ~t the quantity of rain which the same as the quanti~~e ~~-a~y/\~e ~ears is precisely years at the same place Th lC .~ s. I~l any other five possible to predict of· us, while It Is absolutely irn-next year he will commi~~ o~e Fr.en.chm~n that during about one in every six h ~u~e, It Is quite certain that people will do so, be~cau~~ i~e and fifty of the French ha_s ge~erally ~een about that a~st years the prop~rtion ~run~ In relat10n to the tern ?unt, tl~e tendencies to Invanable over a ~uffic· tl pt~hons being everywhere ~lso, the number of "pers~~~ t ~ Wl~e range of time. So ~n London ior being drunk a ~~-In charge by the police Is, week by week a nea ·lan . ~sorderly on the streets th a t th e I· ncli· nation' to dri1n Yl Ut niLorm qu_an tI't y , showi· ng' mass about the same reO' ·~ ~ ~xcess Is always in the temptations or stimul~tiol~-~~ tl ~Ing_ had to· the existing ~nd oversights are of re u::;l o .us VIce. Even mistakes In the post-offices of laro-g . ~r. recurrence, for it js found ters put in without ~dlr~ crtie~ that the number of let- • St.atistics has made out an sses IS ye_ar. by year the same. Wide r~nge, with regard to e!~~llyofishnc~ regularity in a the mind and the d t · Y her things concernin{J' l d ' oc nne founded . ~ pr_oc uce a scheme wh · h u~on It has lately With surprise. It w Ic may well stnke the ignorant a soct· e t y r as proposed to t bl' h · !Or ensurin th . t . es .a Is In London col~ectors, and all gsuc~ I~ egn~y of _clerks, secretaries, rblrged. to find securit for unctlonane~ as are usually h~nds In the course J b J?Oney passing through their h1ghes_t character as an ac~~~~~~s. A gentlernan of the following terms: " If a thou ) spoke of the plan in the club together to indemnif ~fn~ hanke~s~ clerks were to ment. of one pound a ea~ 1elr secur.ItJes, by the pa r. security for 5001 it '! b e.ach, and If each had glv~n ~ ., ls o 1 ~IOus that two in each year |