The child who has been punished unjustly feels the injury inflicted on his spirit, days, months, and, it may be, years, after the body has lost the smarting consciousness of stripes.

And you know that sharp words pierce the mind with acutest pain.

We may speak daggers, as well as use them.
Is this at all clear to you, Miss Markland ?" "Oh, very clear! How strange that I should never have thought of this myself! Yes--I see, hear, taste, and feel with my mind, as well as with my body." "Think a little more deeply," said the old man.

"If the mind have senses, must it not have a body ?" "A body! You are going too deep for me, Mr.Allison.We say mind and body, to indicate that one is immaterial, and the other substantial." "May there not be such a thing as a spiritual as well as a material substance ?" "To say spiritual substance, sounds, in my ears, like a contradiction in terms," said Fanny.
"There must be a substance before there can be a permanent impression.

The mind receives and retains the most lasting impressions; therefore, it must be an organized substance--but spiritual, not material.