The Brain the Organ of the Mind

Princeton Review for July 1879, entitled The Organ of Mind. Both title and arguments are substantially the same as Dr. Bastian's; they both assert that the intellectual and moral faculties can be located in the brain, whilst the facts which they adduce are insufficient even to determine the seats of motion and sensation. Is it, then, fair to the public that crude and dangerous theories, calculated to destroy all social happiness, should be blazed abroad as truth ? In his first chapter, Dr. Bastian attempts to explain the origin of the nervous system. After divesting his language of technicalities, his arguments make us acquainted with nothing more than we knew before?that the nervous system had an origin.^ As to its origin, we know no more than we do of any other of the mysteries of creation. The non-recognition of