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 all things belonging to it, and determines them into act in agreement with its intuition."

The thoroughness of this study of the brain with the intent to find the residence of the soul and the mode of its control over the body led to some remarkable discoveries, of which the learned world is now first becoming aware. Among these it is surprising to find the determination of the glandules of the cortical substance of the cerebrum, as the seat of the soul's sensation and control of the body. Even more surprising is Swedenborg's first general localization of the different functions of the several parts of the cerebrum. Many more observations and deductions are contained in these wonderful studies—published and unpublished—from which there is doubtless still much for students to learn. Dr. Max Newburger of Vienna in a recent essay says—

"The great physiological system set forth by Swedenborg in his two works—Œconomia Regni Animalis and Regnum Animale—contains such a number of successful anticipations of modern science that we do not wonder when we see how feebly his contemporaries grasped the true