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tions in a certain part of the forehead could develop sight;, about a couple of inches lower down, smell; a few inches to the right and left, hearing; and one inch below the nose, taste? Does not the inability to account for these developments suggest that these faculties really develop from within? Their manifestation depends upon the association of matter-convolutions of the brain or whatever else you like to call it but they cannot be created anew purely by the external stimulus. If we regard human consciousness as a stream without an enduring ego, then the important question arises, who carries on parliamentary debates and other elaborate processes of mental activity? It is a wonderful stream :: each group of molecules receives complete and full enlightenment the very instant of its birth, and is able at once to push on with the process from the point where its predecessor left it, and also to expire that very moment!
Science is inclined to regard the other senses than touch as modifications of touch itself. But would it enlighten us as to the ratio between touch and sight and hearing, and so on? How many times has touch to be multiplied by itself before sight will result? What multiple of sight is hearing? How do we get smell out of sight or vice versa and how does taste arise? With due respect to the great men who have deservedly attained to fame in the materialistic sciences, it is submitted that the modern science of psychology is still in its infancy, and does not justify any such rash conclusion as 'a denial of the soul. It is also submitted that scientists have failed to understand what religion really taught, and have allowed themselves to be deceived by
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