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12—THE CENTRAL ORGAN OF THE MIND
The headquarters of intellectual activity in the body is the central organ of the mind. It is connected with, that is, common to, all the senses, and is accordingly termed the common sense. If the organ of thought were not connected with the senses, that is to say, if the senses were not controlled from one central spot or office in the body of man, much confusion would have resulted in life, and much precious time would be wasted needlessly. There would have to be big gaps in thinking, if the individual attention had to go from sense organ to sense organ in search of the different sensory data for its thought-activity. The co-ordination of thought and action, too, would have been quite impossible.
The function of the central organ of mind is to bring about a co-ordination of all the phases of the individual's activity, both sensory and motor, to economise time, and eliminate confusion from deliberation. The soul is like an engineer, and must have all connections and controlling levers in its office. If any of the departments is not represented in the office, the gap in the intelligence caused thereby will be a calamity and unfortunate.
The central organ of the mind is composed of sensory and motor nerves both. The former bring in intelligence of the world outside, and the latter carry out the
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