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Co^Titlljutioxs Mental Philosophy. By Im...
presentiments , mental sympathies and antipathies , h ypnoti sm , clairvoyance , ghost-seeing , and all the varied phenomena of what is now called medium-¦ Both Mr . Morell and his client ^ Ilerr Fichte , are of opinion that this class of facts are sufficiently evidenced ; that intelligent actions have been performed , and thoughts and sentiments dictate and expressed , with which tlie volitional powers have no conscious Connexion . The-proposition is c autiously expressed , andnmny will agree , with much . exactitude- and correctno :- ? . * N these fact ? , the authors before us think referable
consciousness must be predicated of it in its preexistent state . What if , as the Platonists say , it has been forgotten ? It is because , being eternal , memory is not applicable to it . Memory is only applicable to a time-condition , and , therefore , consciousness of sense - perceptions associates readily with memory , while the preconscious selfhood simply abides as a personal presence , concurrent with the entire series of changes that take place in the natural consciousness , but forming no link in the chain of effects . Suspend , however , this consciousness as far as possible , and then " abnormal facts " arise , which testify to the continual operation , however unperccived , of a deeper eternal power , which underlies all ordinary manifestations . The proposition of Ilerr Fichte , thus modified , may go far to explain the phenomena to which he desires to draw philosophical attention .
to " the preconscious regions of mind . " The suggestions coincide with the range of idea cultivated by the medium , and which the medium has been in some way connected with . " You will , " Mr . Morell declares in emphatic italics , " never get anything from anyone ' s inspirations , which does not already exist potentially in his mental habits or culture . " " I have , " adds Mr . Morell , " traced the process of spirit-writing and drawing from the yery first nervous twitches in which it commences , up to its more developed form , and venture to affirm that the whole thing is to the psychologist , as palpably a deve lopment of the unconscious form of mental operation , as writing an ordinary letter is the result of our conscious mental activity . "
We have , therefore , to enquire what our authors mean by the preconscious state of the soul . First then , they object to the usual opinion that the acts of the mind are precisely co-extensive with the consciousness , and that whatever is done unconsciously springs from some objective source , and not from the mind itself . SirWV Hamilton , many years ago , pointed out the fact , that there is a j ) rocess of latent thought always going forward more or less energetically in the soul . Dr . Carpenter designated the same p henomena under the term , unconscious cerebration . Dr . Laycock has brought them under the general category of reflex action ,
and shown that there is a vast variety of facts , both in the man and in the animal , which spring distinctly from the reflex action of the brain . Almost all the modern German psychologists , particularly Carus and the Herbartian school , have developed the same doctrine still more at large . From this large basis of fact and authority , the theorists who hold the preconscious life of the soul are entitled to claim the right of starting ; and they also recognise the instincts of animals as ^ corroborative of their doctrine , together with th
structure of the human frame , which testifies to a preconscious intelligence . MivMorell is therefore , disposed to affirm with Schilling , that all physical motion , activity , and life-eflbrt is only an unconscious thinking ; that unconscious activity , to a vast amount , underlies all our consciousness , and that it is by a natural course of development that the soul becomes raised from its primary condition of unconscious intelligence and blind activity , into the higher state of sclf-consciousncss and volition . ?
Now to the statement , as it stands , we have a serious objection to make . The consciousness that supervenes is neither explained nor assumed in and by the proposition . How does the unconscious become conscious ? The mistake lies in assuming that the preconscious and unconscious are identical ; thnt the negative , in fact , precedes the affirmative . This is , an the highest degree , unphilosophical ; and we wonder how Ilerr Fichte could have fallen into the error . It is , probably , owing to the reaction that hns been going on in his mind against the tyranny of abstract ideas in which ho had been educated . His growing tendency has been to the concrete and the material , and ho clings with too much tenacity tho soul
to time and space , to which he considers to bo subject , as well as tho objects of sense . Ho seems to think that seli ' -consciousnesa and tho consciousness of other being ore coeval . Now , if this wore tnio , it would destroy his whole theory of pre-oxietoncc . Ho warns us , indeed , Against supposing that the unconscious state is " qonsciousless ; ' and aosiderates an . acknowledgment of " unconscious intelligence , " and pthor contradictory terminologies , lie would not that tho soul should Do considered as " merely objective and physical in its constitution , " and allows that tho soul is contrasted with her sense-perceptions by hor permanency and idontity ; but ho has neglected to make his first assumption sufficiently largo in its expression . Tho soul is . in fact , a subjoot-objeot , and setf-
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SIvlilALS . BOSYTELI / S LTFE OF JOHNSON " . Edited by the Kig-ht Hon . J . Wilson Croke . r . With Illustrations . Svo . —John Murray . "Tiik concluding numbers of this , the most interesting biography in the language , are now before us , and it may safely be pronounced one of the completest works ever issued from the press . All that accumulated editing coul d do for it , all that the portrait-painter could bring , or the antiquary contribute , have been lavished on the edition edited by Mr . Croker ; and the remotest scraps that could be gathered since his death have been added by Mr . Peter Cunningham . Everyone must rejoice that such works are brought within all classes , not in a mean or imperfect form , but with excellent paper and print , and all the elaboration the keenest scholar could desire . This ten-shilli ng ' s worth comprises' what was some few years since sold for some po unds in a most incomplete form . And what we admire is not that it is cheap , but that cheapness is , in this instance , joined to first-rate excellence . The L-ife and Times ( for such it is ) of Samuel Johnson by Boswell and subsequent writers , needs little recommendation at this timo of day , but we cannot refrain from reminding our readers that it is a book which aifords a better view of the latter part of the last century than many histories ; and that it combines with the interest of a romance the information of a philosophic history . In fact , it deserves all the reputation it has gained ; and thus edited and published , will even increase in creating interest . It is a book for the old as well as the young , and suitable , from its collections of wise sayings , sound morality , innumerable anecdotes , and faith ful narrative , for all classes and
conditions of men . MOORE'S LIFE OF BYRON . Illustrated . Nos . 1 . and 2 . ( to be completed in . Ten Parts ) , 8 vo . — John Murray . Tins edition of the celebrated life of the celebrated poet is uniform with the cheap edition of his works just issued and completed by the same eminent publisher . It is in every respect as complete and as admirably got up , and contains , as is well known , a mass of literary intelligence of , and correspondence with , all the gveat writers of the first quarter of tho century . It forms , indeed , a capital continuation to " BosweH ' s Life of Johnson , " giving as vivid an account of tlio grant constellation of geniuses that surrounded JJyron , as those-of the previous century did tho great essayist and chamber-wit . These two works give a view of English literature and society during throe quarters of a century , and thus have a great historical interest , in addition to their biographical . It cannot fail to bo highly popular .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 17, 1859, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17121859/page/19/
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