[Uffau] Ly replied, 'If my son, sir, were suspected of heresy, I should myself ha

[Vantull Peralez]

Gical 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 matter
is all that is requisite to produce
the multitudinous manifestations of human and brute cerebration. We rank
ourselves with the second party, and conceive that we must cease
speaking of 'the mind,' and discontinue enlisting in our investigations

a spiritual essence, the existence of which cannot be proved,
but which tends to mystify and perplex a question sufficiently clear if
we confine ourselves to the consideration of organised matter--its
forms--its changes--and
its aberrations from normal structure. [46:1] The eccentric Count de
Caylus, when on his death-bed, was visited by some near relations and a
pious Bishop, who hoped that under such trying circumstances he would
manifest some concern respecting those 'spiritual'
blessings which, while in health, he had uniformly treated with
contempt. After a long pause he broke silence by saying, 'Ah, friends, I
see you are anxious about my soul;' whereupon they pricked up their ears
with delight; before, however, any reply could be made, the

Count added, '_but the fact is I have not got one, and really my good
friends
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