The Henson Journals

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Thursday, March 19th, 1925.

Physiology, or the accurate examination of animated nature, has stepped in to correct, by its careful observations, the fancy flights of metaphysics. Without pretending to define the nature of the soul, or mind, or intellectual principle, whatever we may call it, recognising only that there is a something which secures identity under the constant flux of changing sensation and emotion, the wisest physiologists have endeavoured to trace the means through which this principle of sameness operates. They have ascertained that for every mental effort, for every emotion, there is a definite corresponding change in a certain substance in the brain. No thought of the mind but leaves its trace upon the body.

Bishop Reichel: Cathedral & Univ. Sermons. 80

I motored to Eldon, and there confirmed 145 persons from the parishes of Eldon, Shildon, & New Shildon. On the whole the service pleased me.

I wrote to accept the proposal that I should write six monthly articles for the "Evening Standard" for twenty guineas per article!

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