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character of that power, nor introduce new conditions into the problem. Physical strength is not different in kind when exhibited in an astonishing degree by a maniac, from what it is in ordinary states of body. An ordinary act of recollection involves the whole question, involves neither more nor less than an extraordinary one. These queries How does the mind remember? How does it subjectively acquire and retain power? we must submit are unanswerable; questions which receive no light whatever from any supposed modifications of some supposed substance of the mind. If such modifications were granted, we should understand not in the least how they were equivalent to acts of memory, or productive of them we should simply have two inexplicable things instead of one. The tendency to ask and answer such questions arises from the physical world, where we expect no change of powers without change of structure. The early solution given to this problem of memory, that certain films escape from objects, and are laid away in a secret store-house of the mind, is just as good philosophically as the latest; and sprang from exactly the same false tendency to carry the analogies of matter into mind. The form of mental action is not revealed to us, and we have no clue to it except this false one of reasoning from things and processes totally unlike those of mind; bringing the interpretation of physical phenomena to intellectual facts. We reject the explanation of mental power furnished by unconscious modifications of mind, because it is really no explanation, making the subject not the least clearer; because these modifications themselves are wholly hypothetical; and because they are inferred by analogy, from a field remote from the subject in hand, and alien to it.

The second proof offered, is allied to the first. It is drawn in like manner from the analogies of the physical