A Course of Lectures Author:Thomas Mitchell Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: FIRST LECTURE. 1st. The name of the Science defined. 2d. It implies Mind, Life, Motion. 3d. The Scripture signification of Soul. 4. Electricity the agent of a... more »ll motion. 5. Motion divided into three kinds: voluntary, involuntary, and simple 6. Any doctrine founded exclusively on inference, should be advanced with caution. 7. The quest ion why one person can govern the voluntary powers of another, answered. 8. Shown to be in accordance with the lawe of Electricity. 9. The general laws described. 10. T/ta variety of temperaments attributed to the different degrees or kinds of Electricity with which each brain is charged. 11. Those controllable, not tfte weak; shown to be contrary to the governing principle. 12. No change perceptible in the constitution of those whj are artificially brought into this J'mi- pressible state. Electrical Psychology is, as its name imports, the Science of Mind, Life and Motion. The Scriptural signification of the word Soul, or as we pronounce it, Psych, in this compound word, and which gives a better sound, in its most comprehensive sense, is a living person. For instance it is said, "and the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrels the breath of life and the man became a living soul." Mark, man was the living soul, and not the breath; this was simply the animating principle, or the life. This then, is God's definition of soul, and it is the same throughout the whole volume of inspiration, Heathen Philosophy and cornipt Theology being amalgamated, in opan contradiction to Divine teaching, have declared the breath to be the soul, and have also taught that the nature of this soul was deathless, notwithstanding God says emphatically:'The soul that sinncth,it shall die.' I am not, however- teaching Theology, and shall...« less