Chapter XIII: Is the Mind in the Head?

The contrary opinion has been maintained by idealists and a certain election agent with whom I once had to deal and who remarked that something slipped his mind and then went out of his head altogether. At some period, then, a remembrance was in his head and out of his mind; his mind was not, then, wholly within his head. Also, one is sometimes assured that with certain people "out of sight is out of mind." What is in their minds is therefore in sight, and cannot therefore be inside their heads.