Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Railways, Psychology, Metaphysics, Physiology, Human Species

    Likens the human mind to a carpet-bag, owing to the fact that 'with good packing it will contain any amount of useful contents'. Compares the human being to a railway by claiming that, 'the engine is the mind, the stoker appetite, and reason the engineer'. Likens metaphysics to a 'French dinner', since 'you may enjoy the results' but should avoid the 'processes by which they have been attained'.