[172] “Their central intra-cranial being, to which they attribute all their faculties.” [173] “Suppose they had called this being _person par excellence_....”—p. 75. [174] Let us examine, as to this particular (_moi_) ME, all Broussais’s _variorums_. In one place the _me_ comes from only one organ—the organ of general comparison: “We owe to the organ of general comparison the distinction of our person expressed by the sign _me_.”—Cours de Phrén., p. 684. Further on it comes from two—the organ of comparison and the organ of causality: “The organ of causality is as necessary to the distinction of the _me_, and of the _person_, as the organ of general comparison.”—Ibid. p. 685. Next there is no organ at all: “To assign to the _me_ a special organ appears to me to be out of the question.”—Ibid. p. 119. And then it comes from every where: “There is no special and central organ, and our perception of ourselves has for its basis the sensitive perceptions.”—Ibid. p. 119. [175] Cours de Phrénologie, p. 684. [176] Examen de la Doctrine Médicale, etc. 1816. [177] Cours de Phrénologie, p. 717. [178] Cours de Phrénologie, p. 77. He also says, “Their central intra-cranial being, to which they attribute all the faculties of a man, is not cognisable by any of our senses, ... it is therefore a pure hypothesis.”—Ibid. p. 153. Thus there is no _mind_ (pure hypothesis); no _faculties_ but those of the _organs_ (the faculties are the acts of _material organs_); no understanding, except as a simple phenomenon of the nervous action (understanding and all its manifestations are _phenomena of nervous action_); consequently, there is no psycology; there is nothing but physiology; and even (for it should be clearly understood) nothing but Broussais’s physiology. [179] “In order to form for one’s self a just notion of the operations which result in the production of thought, it is necessary to conceive of the brain as a peculiar organ, specially designed for the production thereof, just as the stomach is designed to effect digestion, the liver to form the bile, &c.”—Cabanis, Rapports du Physique et du moral de l’homme, IIe mémoire, § vii.