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124 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
cord is the
coma, or apoplectic insensibility. The spinal
brain of the body ; and it is questionable whether all
voluntary actions are not of a secondary character,
prompted by the brain, and then executed by the spinal
cord.
Many physiologists
believe that one of the functions
of the cerebellum, is to combine and harmonize mus
cular motion. There is little doubt that the organs of
the brain form a perfect society, arranged in series and
groups, acting together in a normal state, in perfect
harmony, and carrying out their impulses by the best
possible adaptations of organism. A central, combining,
regulating, and harmonizing power may well reside in
the cerebellum, which is an organ of the most beautiful
and complex character, and a source and reservoir of
power and energy, such as exists in no other part of
the system.
I wish to close my remarks on this branch of my
subject, by some observations in comparative psychol
and the relation of other animals to man. Accord
ogy,
ing to our use of the word soul, it may be applied to
every being that is gifted with sensation, thought, pas
sion, and volition. It is the spiritual principle of animal
or sensitive life ; and there is also a lower soul or ani
mating principle of organic life, which belongs both to
vegetables and animals. The brains of animals, far
down the scale of being, are like those of man. There
is the same kind of grey, cellular matter, and white
fibrous ; nerves of sensation and motion ; organs of
sense, and organs of motion ; an animal system super
imposed upon the organic. The brain of man differs
from the brains of animals below him in the scale of