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SCIENCE displaced by a set of nervous changes which are totally uolike anything but themeelven. Finally, we land in the dark chamber of the skull. The object has gone completely, and knowledge bas not yet appeared. Nervous signs are the raw material of all knowledge of the onter world, according to the most decided realisin. But in order to pass beyond these sigus ioto a knowledge of the onter world, we must posit an interpreter who shall read back thene signs into their objective meaning. But that interpreter, again, must implicitly contain the meaning of the universe within itself; and these sigos. are really bat excitations which cause the soul to unfold what is within itself. Inasmuch as by common cougent the goal communicates with the outer world only through these signs, and never comes Dearer to the object than ench signs cau bring it, it follows that the principles of interpretation must be in the mind itself, and that the resulting construction is primarily only an expression of the mind's own nature. All reaction is of this sort ; it expresses the nature of the reacting agent,
and koowledge comes uuder the same head." I have underlined the important passages in this lucid statement of Prof. Bowne's to emphasize the point. We can now see that education, from e, out, and duco, to lead, is, really, the bringing of knowledge out of the recesses of the mind, as the etymology of the word rightly points out.
Let us now go back to the hypothesis that the brain is the producer of consciousness for a moment. You know that the brain is not a permanent substance; of the matter which it is composed is constantly passing out and being replaced by other such matter. You
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