This idea is advanced on the supposition that _one mind_ could command an unlimited direction over any given number of _limbs_, provided they were all connected by _joint_ and _sinew_. But suppose, through some occult and inconceivable means, these limbs were dis-associated, as to all material connexion; suppose, for instance, one mind with unlimited authority, governed the operations of _two_ separate persons, would not this substantially, be only _one person_, seeing the directing principle was one? If the truth here contended for, be admitted, that _two persons_, governed by _one mind_, is incontestably _one person_; the same conclusion would be arrived at, and the proposition equally be justified, which affirmed that, _three_, or otherwise _four_ persons, owning also necessary and essential subjection to _one mind_, would only be so many diversities or modifications of that _one mind_, and therefore the component parts virtually collapsing into _one whole_, the person would be _one_. Let any man ask himself, whose understanding can both reason and become the depository of truth, whether, if _one mind_ thus regulated with absolute authority, _three_, or otherwise _four_ persons, with all their congeries of material parts, would not these parts inert in themselves, when subjected to one predominant mind, be in the most logical sense, _one person_? Are ligament and exterior combination indispensable pre-requisites to the sovereign influence of mind over mind? or mind over matter? But perhaps it may be said, we have no instance of one mind governing more than one body. This may be, but the argument remains the same. With a proud spirit, that forgets its own contracted range of thought, and circumscribed knowledge, who is to limit the sway of Omnipotence? or presumptuously to deny the possibility of _that_ Being, who called light out of darkness, so to exalt the dominion of _one mind_, as to give it absolute sway over other dependant minds, or (indifferently) over detached, or combined portions of organized matter? But if this superinduced quality be conferable on any order of created beings, it is blasphemy to limit the power of God, and to deny _his_ capacity to transfuse _his own_ Spirit, when and to whom he will.