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  THE 
  PROBLEM 
  OF 
  BODY 
  AND 
  MIND 
  

  

  by-product 
  of 
  the 
  all-important 
  inter-relations 
  of 
  nerve-cells, 
  

   then 
  we 
  have 
  slipped 
  back 
  again 
  into 
  the 
  slough 
  of 
  material- 
  

   ism. 
  And 
  it 
  does 
  not 
  seem 
  unfair 
  to 
  put 
  to 
  those 
  who 
  say 
  

   that 
  thinking 
  is 
  only 
  the 
  phosphorescence 
  of 
  an 
  exuberant 
  

   cerebral 
  metabolism, 
  the 
  question, 
  " 
  What, 
  then, 
  must 
  the 
  

   theory 
  of 
  epiphenomenalism 
  be 
  held 
  to 
  be? 
  A 
  will-o'-the- 
  

   wisp 
  looking 
  at 
  itself 
  ? 
  ' 
  

  

  Against 
  the 
  theory 
  that 
  the 
  mind 
  does 
  not 
  count 
  let 
  us 
  

   note 
  the 
  opinion 
  of 
  Professor 
  Sherrington, 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  

   distinguished 
  investigators 
  of 
  the 
  nervous 
  system. 
  In 
  his 
  

   important 
  book 
  The 
  Integrative 
  Action 
  of 
  the 
  Nervous 
  

   System, 
  he 
  says 
  : 
  " 
  The 
  concomitance 
  between 
  certain 
  

   nervous 
  reactions 
  and 
  psychosis 
  seems 
  an 
  alliance 
  that 
  

   strengthens 
  the 
  restless 
  striving 
  of 
  the 
  individual 
  animal 
  

   which 
  is 
  the 
  passport 
  of 
  its 
  species 
  to 
  continuance 
  of 
  exist- 
  

   ence 
  ' 
  (p. 
  333). 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  "Certain 
  it 
  is 
  that 
  if 
  we 
  study 
  

   the 
  process 
  by 
  which 
  in 
  ourselves 
  this 
  control 
  over 
  reflex 
  

   action 
  is 
  acquired 
  by 
  an 
  individual, 
  psychical 
  factors 
  loom 
  

   large, 
  and 
  more 
  is 
  known 
  of 
  them 
  than 
  of 
  the 
  purely 
  physi- 
  

   ological 
  'modus 
  operandi 
  involved 
  in 
  the 
  attainment 
  of 
  the 
  

   control" 
  (p. 
  390). 
  

  

  Only 
  in 
  the 
  analytic 
  laboratory 
  or 
  systematic 
  museum- 
  

   can 
  we 
  rest 
  satisfied 
  with 
  a 
  view 
  of 
  Animate 
  Nature 
  which 
  

   maintains 
  that 
  mind 
  does 
  not 
  count. 
  By 
  sympathy 
  if 
  not 
  

   by 
  science 
  we 
  are 
  sure 
  that 
  to 
  leave 
  mind 
  out 
  is 
  a 
  travesty 
  

   of 
  the 
  facts. 
  Especially 
  in 
  its 
  higher 
  reaches, 
  life 
  is 
  suffused 
  

   with 
  feeling 
  and 
  meaning. 
  

  

  In 
  his 
  Birds 
  and 
  Man 
  Mr. 
  Hudson 
  tells 
  of 
  what 
  his 
  

   brother 
  once 
  saw 
  on 
  a 
  lonely 
  sheep-farm 
  on 
  the 
  southern 
  

   frontier 
  of 
  Buenos 
  Ayres. 
  " 
  Immense 
  numbers 
  of 
  upland 
  

   geese 
  in 
  great 
  flocks 
  used 
  to 
  spend 
  the 
  cold 
  months 
  on 
  the 
  

   plains 
  where 
  he 
  had 
  his 
  lonely 
  hut; 
  and 
  one 
  morning 
  in 
  

  

  