[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] 4SIE,—I am indebted to
you for a very kind and instructive comment on my recent little essay in Macmillan's Magazine on 44 Unconscious Cerebration." Failing to concede the premisses on which I endeavoured to build my arguments, you have naturally stopped short of stating its drift and conclusion. By so doing, -however, you have, I fear, exposed me to be misunderstood by the many who will read your review, and not my article ; and I shall be supposed to have stood forward as an advocate of materialism, with its usual consequences. Permit me to state in one sentence the design of my paper. It was intended to show that lthe brain -should hereafter be scientifically proved to "secrete thought," that much dreaded conclusion would argue nothing against, but nega- tively something in favour of, the survival by the conscious Self 'of the dissolution of the brain.—I am, Sir, &c., FRANCES POWER COBBE.
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