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  THE 
  PROBLEM 
  OF 
  BODY 
  AND 
  MIND 
  

  

  words 
  ; 
  that 
  an 
  area 
  at 
  the 
  posterior 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  second 
  pari- 
  

   etal 
  convolution 
  on 
  the 
  left 
  side 
  is 
  similarly 
  associated 
  with 
  

   visual 
  images 
  of 
  words 
  and 
  letters 
  (see 
  Bergson's 
  Creative 
  

   Evolution). 
  

  

  The 
  senescence 
  of 
  the 
  worker 
  hive-bees 
  after 
  their 
  all 
  too 
  

   strenuous 
  short 
  life 
  is 
  correlated 
  with 
  observable 
  fatigue- 
  

   changes 
  in 
  their 
  brains, 
  and 
  the 
  influence 
  on 
  the 
  human 
  

   nervous 
  system 
  of 
  degeneracy 
  of 
  the 
  thyroid 
  gland 
  is 
  cor- 
  

   related 
  with 
  the 
  semi-idiocy 
  of 
  cretinism. 
  There 
  is 
  no 
  

   question-begging 
  in 
  giving 
  these 
  illustrations 
  of 
  the 
  way 
  in 
  

   which 
  our 
  mind's 
  activity 
  and 
  development 
  are 
  bound 
  up 
  

   with 
  the 
  health 
  and 
  development 
  of 
  the 
  body, 
  for 
  it 
  is 
  

   quite 
  open 
  to 
  any 
  one 
  to 
  hold 
  that 
  the 
  brain, 
  for 
  instance, 
  

   is 
  the 
  instrument 
  in 
  and 
  through 
  which 
  the 
  mind 
  realises 
  

   its 
  desires 
  and 
  ideals. 
  " 
  It 
  may 
  be 
  held 
  also/' 
  an 
  expert 
  

   psychologist 
  writes, 
  " 
  that 
  the 
  gradual 
  failure 
  of 
  powers 
  

   with 
  old 
  age 
  or 
  the 
  temporary 
  failure 
  with 
  illness 
  or 
  fatigue 
  

   failure 
  which, 
  though 
  primarily 
  physical, 
  seems 
  to 
  reach 
  

   to 
  the 
  very 
  core 
  of 
  the 
  mind's 
  being 
  is 
  defect 
  not 
  of 
  the 
  

   player, 
  but 
  of 
  the 
  instrument 
  on 
  which 
  he 
  plays, 
  and 
  through 
  

   which 
  alone 
  his 
  genius 
  can 
  find 
  fitting 
  expression 
  '' 
  (J. 
  L. 
  Mc- 
  

   Intyre; 
  Hastings' 
  Cyclopaedia, 
  vol. 
  x, 
  p. 
  778). 
  Our 
  pres- 
  

   ent 
  point 
  is 
  simply 
  that, 
  whatever 
  be 
  our 
  theoretical 
  inter- 
  

   pretation, 
  it 
  must 
  do 
  justice 
  to 
  the 
  facts 
  of 
  correlation. 
  For 
  

   whatever 
  theory 
  we 
  adopt, 
  these 
  facts 
  remain. 
  

  

  3. 
  What 
  Must 
  Be 
  Recognised 
  from 
  the 
  Humanist 
  Side. 
  

  

  In 
  pondering 
  over 
  the 
  body 
  and 
  mind 
  problem 
  we 
  must 
  

   never 
  lose 
  sight 
  of 
  the 
  supreme 
  reality 
  of 
  i 
  mind 
  '. 
  We 
  need 
  

   not 
  dwell 
  on 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  we 
  do 
  not 
  know 
  anything 
  of 
  Na- 
  

   ture 
  save 
  in 
  the 
  selective 
  mirror 
  of 
  our 
  minds 
  ; 
  it 
  is 
  more 
  

   important 
  to 
  insist 
  on 
  the 
  positive 
  reality 
  of 
  the 
  thought-life, 
  

  

  