The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ... . s are paralyzed their minds cannot think ?that if their bodies are asleep their minds are withoutpower ? that their minds are not at all times able to exert .,T4 BARUCH SPINOZA themselves even on the same subject, but depend on thestate of their bodies ? And as for experience provingthat the members of the Body can be controlled by theMind, I fear experience proves very much the it is
The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ... . s are paralyzed their minds cannot think ?that if their bodies are asleep their minds are withoutpower ? that their minds are not at all times able to exert .,T4 BARUCH SPINOZA themselves even on the same subject, but depend on thestate of their bodies ? And as for experience provingthat the members of the Body can be controlled by theMind, I fear experience proves very much the it is absurd, they rejoin, to attempt to explain,from the mere laws of Body, such things as pictures, orpalaces, or works of art; the Body could not build achurch unless the Mind directed it. I have shown, how-ever, that we do not yet know what Body can or cannotdo, or what would naturally follow from the structure ofit; that we experience in the feats of somnambulistssomething which, antecedently to that experience, wouldhave seemed incredible. This fabric of the humanbody exceeds infinitely any contrivance of human skill,and an infinity of things, as I have already proved,ought to follow from SPOFFORD, Harriet Elizabeth (Pres-COTT), an American novelist and poet, born atCalais, Me., April 3, 1835. While she was a childher family removed to Newburyport, Mass., at ornear which she has since resided. In 1855 she be-came the wife of Richard S. Spofford, a lawyer ofBoston. About 1850 she began to write storiesfor periodicals. In 1859 she sent to the AtlanticMonthly a story of Parisian life, entitled In a Cel-lar, which was held in abeyance for some timeunder the impression that it was an unacknowl-edged translation from the French. This misap-prehension was removed; the story was pub-lished, and Harriet Prescott soon became a fre-quent contributor to the best magazines. Someof her numerous pieces have from time to timebeen collected into volumes. Among her worksare Sir Rohans Ghos
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