The phrase "mind over matter" first appeared in 1863 in
The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man by
Sir Charles Lyell (1797–1875) and was first used to refer to the increasing status and evolutionary growth of the minds of animals and man throughout Earth history. Another related saying, "
the mind drives the mass" (Latin: ), was coined almost two millennia earlier, in 19 BC, by the poet
Virgil in his work
Aeneid, book 6, line 727. ==Parapsychology==