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. You will see this clearer, if you think of
the endurance of habit. 'As the twig is bent, the tree's inclined,'
is a trite saying that aptly illustrates the subject about which we
are now conversing. If the mind were not a substance and a form, how
could it receive and retain impressions?"

"True."

"And to advance a step further--if the mind have form, what is that
form?"

"The human form, if any," was the answer.

"Yes. And of this truth the minds of all men have a vague
perception. A cruel man is called a human monster. In thus speaking,