with the mass of her
consciousness, nevertheless has its part in her consciousness
taken as a whole, much as the psychic correspondents of the
action of the nerve which govern the secretions of the glands of
the body have their part in her consciousness taken as a whole.

"It is very much as if the optic ganglia developed fully in
themselves, without any closer connection with the rest of the
brain than existed at their first appearance. They would form a
little complex nervous system almost but not quite apart from the
brain system; and it would be difficult to deny them a
consciousness of their own; which would indeed form part of the
whole consciousness of the individual, but which would be in a
manner self-dependent." It must, if this is so, be said that
before birth, on the psychic side, the embryo's activities "form
part of a complex consciousness which is that of the mother and
embryo together." "Without subscribing to the strange stories of
telepathy, of the solemn apparition of a person somewhere at the
moment of his death a thousand miles away, of the unquiet ghost
haunting the scenes of its bygone hopes and endeavors, one may
ask" (with the author of the address in medicine at the Leicester
gathering of the British Medical Association, _British Medical
Journal_, July 29, 1905) "whether two brains cannot be so tuned
in sympathy as to transmit and receive a subtile transfusion of
mind without mediation of sense. Considering what is implied by
the human brain with its countless millions of cells, its
complexities of minute structure, its innumerable chemical
compositions, and the condensed forces in its microscopic and
ultramicroscopic elements--the whole a sort of microcosm of
cosmic forces to which no conceivable compound of electric
batteries is comparable; considering, again, that from an
electric station waves of energy radiate through the viewless air
to be caught up by a fit receiver a thousand miles distant, it is
not inconceivable that the human brain may send off still more
subtile waves to be accepted and interpreted by the fitly tuned
receiving brain. Is it, after all, mere fancy that a mental
atmosphere or effluence emanates from one person to affect
another, either soothing sympathetically or irritating
antipathically?" These remarks (like Dr. Marshall