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Rh the neurone. But there something happens ; … then it reappears in a new guise, vibration becomes sensation, the physical psychic, the objective subjective, the real ideal, the dead alive ! In that brief tumble of time what a miraculous transformation !

Modern science has cleared up much of the mystery of the objective world, and although it may be far from the end of its search, although, indeed, the search, one must think, can never entirely elucidate the dense obscurity that envelops us on every side, dark as a starless night around a candle, yet we already know this much, that the real world is very different from the world depicted for us by our senses.

Only a little imagination is needed to convey us out of the magic circle into which we have been born, and what a strange universe do we then find ourselves in! Entangled in a meshwork of space-time and permeated by whirling maelstroms of varied and innumerable oscillations, we lose all hold on reality in the very act of grasping it.

But although we do possess some sort of vague notion as to the constitution of the outer universe, before the inner we stand ignorant and speechless.

Regarded as a machine, the brain, it is true, like the world without, is reluctantly yielding up its secrets one by one. We are learning how it works as a chemical factory, as a physical power-house,