CHAPTER XIV.

THE MIND AND THE HAND.

The Mind and the Hand are Allies; the Mind speculates, the Hand tests its Speculations in Things. -- The Hand explodes the Errors of the Mind -- it searches after Truth and finds it in Things. -- Mental Errors are subtile; they elude us, but the False in Things stands self-exposed. -- The Hand is the Mind’s Moral Rudder. -- The Organ of Touch the most Wonderful of the Senses; all the Others are Passive; it alone is Active. -- Sir Charles Bell’s Discovery of a “Muscular Sense.” -- Dr. Henry Maudsley on the Muscular Sense. -- The Hand influences the Brain. -- Connected Thought impossible without Language, and Language dependent upon Objects; and all Artificial Objects are the Work of the Hand. -- Progress is therefore the Imprint of the Hand upon Matter in Art. -- The Hand is nearer the Brain than are the Eye and the Ear. -- The Marvellous Works of the Hand. 144