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SCIENCE
a life-time may be remembered by an individual, his recollecting faculty must bave subsisted uninterruptedly throughout. One who comes into existence, for the first time, at a particular moment of time, only to be gathered to bis forefathers in the very next instant, cannot, by any possibility, know what its predecessors knew, or feel as they did in certain associations. A substratum of individuality which continues in time, i, e., a something which endures, is necessary for the purpose ; and 110 amount of "learned talk" can explain the facts of consciousness, that is, feeling, memory and willing if we posit a consciousnes that is generated afresh, every moment, from the physical matter of the brain in place of the true individual, namely the atman or soul.
The next characteristic of consciousness is its psychic nature as distinguished from the physical nature of matter and material things. There is an inside to consciousness which may become the repository of even infi. pite knowledge, enthusiasm, goodness, will, etc., etc.; but the atom of matter has no inside to expand. Evolution in reference to matter means the improvement or modification of bodies through continuous readjustment of molecular groupings. Evolution in respect to mind means the enrichment of consciousness by internal lucidity and expansion of thought. Conscious. ness is a world in itself which can be peopled by an infinity of ideas, impressions and concepts; but matter bas no interior to its atom to accommodate even a
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