memory is particularly engaged and constantly engaged in the arrangement of records.

"No one can doubt this who can understand, that two and two make four. And as we know what pictures are, and how they are made, and for what purpose, so we know what records are, and how they are made, and for what purpose. And as the pictures in the eye must be and are taken in the same manner as those in a camera, so the records of memory must be and are made similarly to those that we make in books."

"And the soul-?"

"Is as responsive to the one as to the other. And our confusion or ignorance in regard to a very large class of the phenomena of nature arises from a delusion as to size and space; through which delusion or complete misunderstanding we lose all track of what takes place, and not seeing that the ordinary processes with which we are most familiar may take place, imagine some extraordinary ones instead, impossible and absurd.

"Our estimate of size depends upon the visual angle of the object seen, and this varies with the distance of the object from the eye, as well as with its real size, and also with the conditions in which light passes from the object to the eye, that is with the refraction of light. And therefore, apparent size depends on conditions, and is without absolute significance; so that the apparent size of an object may be increased by a microscope 100,000 times or more; or by a telescope 1,000 times or more. And indeed there would appear to be no limit to the different estimate of size possible to vision.

"Thus a thing becomes infinitely small in appearance, as a star when far enough removed, which would appear enormously

large if brought close to the eye. And so because of its nature, although from other causes, we are largely deceived by vision, in things under a certain size. And as we learn to correct the errors which arise from distance, so must we learn to correct those which arise from these other causes.

"That is, we must always remember that a space which seems to us infinitely small is abundantly large for untold numbers of beings or things to inhabit, subject to laws precisely similar to those governing those things which we can see. Thus things move about in similar manner and pass each other in similar manner. For nature's laws are universal, and this law of the way that things pass each other is universal. They pass where there is room and when there isn't they don't pass. And anyone who does not recognize this deceptive character of vision with all the consequences it includes, must remain in hopeless ignorance.

"The old Pine will see that Mr. Hooke described a graphophone some 200 years before it was invented."

"WE

XXVI.

E have seen that some organs, like the liver or stomach, are used in the economy of the body; that other organs, as those of sensation, have little to do with the body, except to warn it of dangers, but minister to the wants of the soul. In the very different nature of these organs, and the very different uses for which they are employed, can be again perceived the entirely different character of the body and the mind. With his usual want both of good sense and of perception, the scientist fails to see such distinction, and talks about thought being secreted by the brain the same as bile by the liver. Whether the body may perform certain functions independent of mind, Ellen does not know; but the mind's action is of an entirely different character from that of the body, and brought about by an entirely different process,—an educational process, similar to what we use in schools; and it would be as sensible to undertake to teach a boy arithmetic by giving him apples, as to suppose intelligence to come from a similar cause. The two entirely distinct conditions of mind and matter are perhaps nowhere more forcibly illustrated than in the nature of the operation by which each is sustained in the performance of its functions. Food and drink will answer the purposes of the physical organs; but when the mind develops, it must be fed with ideas. And this fact alone, that the mind depends for its development and action upon educational pro