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 or, rather, as we think on the subject, we become more keenly aware of our lack of exact knowledge—certainly, in the relationship of brain to mind.

For the most part, the brain is a barren waste. Only a few parts of the cortex have been cultivated and made productive; yet there are many useful little garden patches which have been tilled by labor, titillated by play, and watered with tears besides the little areas of speech. There is one, not yet located I believe, which registers musical notes, and another to give them forth. These regions may remain uncultivated and lie fallow through life; or having been cultivated, they may be rendered useless and sterile by accident or disease while the speech-areas remain unharmed. There is a register-area for mathematics, another for form, and another for color. We all have known great artists! consummate colorists, exquisite delineators, and superb acrobatic performers on musical instruments who were virtual idiots other-