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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: and good philosopher called Herder, that "The organ is in no case
the power which works by it;" which is as much as to say, that the
engine is not the engine-driver, nor the spade the gardener.
There have always been, and always will be, a few people who
cannot see that. They think that a man's soul is part of his
body, and that he himself is not one thing, but a great number of
things. They think that his mind and character are only made up
of all the thoughts, and feelings, and recollections which have
passed through his brain; and that as his brain changes, he
himself must change, and become another person, and then another
person again, continually. But do you not agree with them: but
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