That this is neither joke nor slander, we will show by reference to No. 25 of ‘The Shepherd,’ a clever and well known periodical, whose editor, [30:1] in reply to a correspondent of the ‘chaotic’ tribe, said ’As to the question—­where is magnetism without the magnet?  We answer, magnetism is the magnet, and the magnet is magnetism.’  If so, body is the mind and the mind is body; and our Shepherd, if asked, ’Where is mind without the body?’ to be consistent, should answer, body is the mind and the mind is the body.  Both these answers are true, or both are false; and it must be allowed—­

          Each lends to each a borrowed charm,
          Like pearls upon an Ethiop’s arm.

Ask the ‘Shepherd’ where is mind without the body? and, if not at issue with himself, he must reply, mind is the man and man is the mind.

If this be so,—­if the mind is the man and the man is the mind, which none can deny who say magnetism is the magnet and the magnet magnetism—­how, in Reason’s name, can they be different, or how can the ‘Shepherd’ consistently pretend to distinguish between them; yet he does so.  He writes about the spiritual part of man as though he really believed there is such a part.  Not satisfied, it would seem, with body, like Nonentitarians of vulgar mould, he tenants it with Soul or Spirit, or Mind, which Soul, or Spirit, or Mind, according to his own showing, is nothing but body in action; in other terms, organised matter performing vital functions.  Idle declamation against ‘facts mongers’ well becomes such self-stultifying dealers in fiction.  Abuse of ‘experimentarians’ is quite in keeping with the philosophy of those who maintain the reality of mind in face of their own strange statement, that magnetism is the magnet and the magnet magnetism.

But we deny that magnetism is the magnet.  These words magnetism and magnet do not, it is true, stand for two things, but one thing:  that one and only thing called matter.  The magnet is an existence, i.e., that which moves.  Magnetism is not an existence, but phenomenon, or, if you please, phenomena.  It is the effect of which magnetic body is the immediate and obvious cause.

To evade the charge of Materialism, said Dr. Engledue, we (Phrenologists) content ourselves with stating that the immaterial makes use of the material to show forth its powers.  What is the result of this?  We have the man of theory and believer in supernaturalism quarrelling with the man of fact and supporter of Materialism.  We have two parties; the one asserting that man possesses a spirit superadded to, but not inherent in, the brain—­added to it, yet having no necessary connection with it—­producing material changes, yet immaterial—­destitute of any of the known properties of matter—­in fact an immaterial something which in one word means nothing, producing all the cerebral functions of man, yet not localised-not susceptible of proof; the other party contending that the belief in spiritualism fetters and ties down physiological investigation—­that man’s intellect is prostrated by the domination of metaphysical speculation—­that we have no evidence of the existence of an essence, and that organised mutter is all that is requisite to produce the multitudinous manifestations of human and brute cerebration.