Notwithstanding the arguments of Spinosa, and Des Cartes, and other advocates of the _Material system_, or, in more appropriate language, the _Atheistical system_! it is admitted by all men, not prejudiced, not biased by sceptical prepossessions, that _mind_ is distinct from _matter_. The mind of man, however, is involved in inscrutable darkness, (as the profoundest metaphysicians well know) and is to be estimated, if at all, alone by an inductive process; that is, by its _effects_. Without entering on the question, whether an extremely circumscribed portion of the mental process, surpassing instinct, may or may not be extended to quadrupeds, it is universally acknowledged, that the mind of man alone, regulates all the actions[10] of his corporeal frame. Mind, therefore, may be regarded as a distinct genus, in the scale ascending above brutes, and including the whole of intellectual existences; advancing from _thought_, that mysterious thing! in its lowest form, through all the gradations of sentient and rational beings, till it arrives at a Bacon, a Newton; and then, when unincumbered by matter, extending its illimitable sway through Seraph and Archangel, till we are lost in the GREAT INFINITE! Is it not deserving of notice, as an especial subject of meditation, that our _limbs_, in all they do or can accomplish, implicitly obey the dictation of the _mind_? that this operating power, whatever its name, under certain limitations, exercises a sovereign dominion not only over our limbs, but over our[11] intellectual pursuits? The mind of every man is evidently the fulcrum, the moving force, which alike regulates all his limbs and actions: and in which example, we find a strong illustration of the subordinate nature of mere _matter_. That alone which gives direction to the organic parts of our nature, is wholly _mind_; and one mind if placed over a thousand limbs, could, with undiminished ease, control and regulate the whole.