This impression has been deepened by every successive addition to the doctrines of Physiology; and especially by the recent speculations on Phrenology, Animal Magnetism, and Clairvoyance.

Now, we think that these speculations, even if they were admitted into the rank of true sciences, would not materially alter the "state of the question" respecting the distinction between Mind and Matter, as that question was discussed in former times.
Take the case of Phrenology.

It had always been admitted that the mind has certain _external organs_, through which it receives various impressions from without, and holds communication with the sensible universe.

The existence and use of these organs were held to be perfectly compatible with the doctrine that the soul itself is immaterial.

Phrenology appears, and professes to have discovered _certain other organs_, certain cerebral developments, which stand connected with the various functions of thought and feeling; in other words, to the _five senses_ which are universally recognized, it adds _thirty_ or _forty_ organs in the brain, not hitherto known to exist.
But how does this discovery, even supposing it to be fully established, affect the state of the question respecting the radical distinction betwixt Mind and Matter?
A material organization, in the case of man, was always admitted; and the only difference which that discovery could be supposed to make, must arise from the addition of certain organs to those which were previously established.