In the remarks already made, on the study of the Science of Mind, we have considered its effects on the progress of the other sciences, and on the moral dispositions. But, though the study had no effects of this kind, moral or intellectual, is not the mind itself a part of nature, and _as a mere physical object_, deserving of our profoundest and most intent investigation? or shall it be said, that while we strive, not merely to measure the whole earth, and to follow in our thought the revolutions of these great orbs, whose majesty may almost be said to force from us this homage of admiration, but to arrange, in distinct tribes, those animalcular atoms, whose very existence we learn only from the glass through which we view them; the observing and calculating mind itself is less an object of universal science, than the antennae of an insect, or the filaments of a weed? Would it be no reproach to man, even though he knew all things besides, that he yet knew far less accurately than he might know, his own internal nature,--like voyagers who delight in visiting every coast of the most distant country, without the slightest acquaintance, perhaps, with the interior of their own? Qui terræ pelagique vias, mundique per omnes Articulos spatiatur ovans, metasque suorum Herculeas audet supra posuisse laborum, Neglectus jacet usque sibi, dumque omnia quærit, Ipse sui quæsitor abest; incognita tellus Solus nauta latet, propiorque ignotior orbis. Would the lines which follow these, if indeed there were any one to whom they were applicable in their full extent, convey praise less high than that which might be given to the observer of some small nerve or membrane, that had never been observed before, or the discoverer of a new species of earth, in some pebble before unanalyzed? Tu melior Tiphys, spreto jam Phasidis auro, In te vela paras, animatos detegis orbes, Humanasque aperis ausis ingentibus oras. Jamque novos laxari sinus, animæque latentis Arcanas reserare vias, cœlosque recessus Fas aperire tibi, totamque secludere mentem.