believed to be mind only through error and delusion. Examine that form of
matter called _brains_, and you find no mind therein. Hence the logical
sequence, that there is in reality neither matter nor mortal mind, but that
the self-testimony of the physical senses is false.

Examine these witnesses for error, or falsity, and observe the foundations
of their testimony, and you will find them divided in evidence, mocking the
Scripture (Matthew xviii. 16), "In the mouth of two or three witnesses
every word may be established."


_Sight._ Mortal mind declares that matter sees through the organizations of
matter, or that mind sees by means of matter. Disorganize the so-called
material structure, and then mortal mind says, "I cannot see;" and declares
that matter is the master of mind, and that non-intelligence governs.
Mortal mind admits that it sees only material images, pictured on the eye's
retina.

What then is the line of the syllogism? It must be this: That matter is not
seen; that mortal mind cannot see without matter; and therefore that the
whole function of material sight is an illusion, a lie.

Here comes in the summary of the whole matter, wherewith we started: that
God is All, and God is Spirit; therefore there is nothing but Spirit; and
consequently there is no matter.


_Touch_. Take another train of reasoning. Mortal mind says that matter
cannot feel matter; yet put your finger on a burning coal, and the nerves,
material nerves, _do_ feel matter.