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[ 30 ) In due course of time, this foelus issues out as the human child; it cries out as soon as it is born, if sucks honey when applied io the mouth, it cries when hungry, and it is hushed again when ils hunger is appeased by sucking at the mother's breasi. As the child develops, it begins to laugh, weep, think, reason and speak. Once life has been impregnaled in the foelus, the other necessary quailties and powers are bound to appear in due course and he senses musi begin to discharge their proper functions. These senses are eleven in number—the sive SCIYSGS of knowledge, the five senses of action and function, and mind which is the internal sense. The Ego, the Intelligence, and the Self ( që HTTT ) are buł various stages or transformalions of mind. The mind which resolves and ascertains is Intelligence ; the mind which reasons and discriminoles is Self: and the mind which perceives itself as the unifying“ principle of knowledge is the Ego. The senses begin io function under the urge of the mind ; as ihe body fills out, the senses increase in sirengih, and gradually. in due course, man's individual soul begins to reap the fruit of its activities. I shall here quote the opinion of the leading scientisls of the West upon the subject of life. This is what Dr. Mitchell says in ihe Encyclopoedia „Briiannica. (Elevenih Edition, p. 6O1.)