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 less so, but even branches of intellectuality or professions become in time notably marked. We know therefore that the same thing builds the body that builds character. In short, all evidence goes to show that affection and thought are the life of the brain, and through the brain reign as the supreme governors in the body. It is rationally conclusive from the foregoing that, as no activity can exist apart from a substance, and as matter is totally incapable of that activity distinguished as affection and thought, affection and thought are of a substance superior to matter, and that the brain's activity is from that substance, which is consequently its life and vital essence.

All the faculties of the mind can be traced to the province of affection and thought. The whole intellectual part, to which belong knowledge, ideas, conceptions, wisdom, and their kind, is from the thought function; purpose, desire, longing, and their kind are from the affectional function: or what is the same, the understanding and the will comprehend the whole of the human. The understanding is such as is one's wisdom, and the will is such as is one's love. The terms will and understanding are used more to refer to