﻿THE 
  PROBLEM 
  OF 
  BODY 
  AND 
  MIND 
  235 
  

  

  the 
  most 
  real 
  fact 
  in 
  the 
  world. 
  There 
  must 
  surely 
  be 
  some 
  

   bungling 
  with 
  words 
  when 
  the 
  distinguished 
  physiologist 
  

   Prof. 
  Jacques 
  Loeb 
  speaks 
  of 
  our 
  existence 
  being 
  " 
  based 
  

   on 
  the 
  play 
  of 
  blind 
  forces 
  and 
  only 
  a 
  matter 
  of 
  chance 
  ", 
  

   and 
  of 
  ourselves 
  as 
  " 
  only 
  chemical 
  mechanisms 
  ". 
  Ideas 
  are 
  

   not 
  impalpable 
  will-o'-the-wisps, 
  they 
  have 
  hands 
  and 
  feet. 
  

   " 
  My 
  mind 
  to 
  me 
  a 
  Kingdom 
  is," 
  not 
  a 
  dispensable 
  emana- 
  

   tion 
  suspended 
  tremulously 
  over 
  the 
  physical, 
  like 
  the 
  heat- 
  

   haze 
  over 
  the 
  cornfields. 
  The 
  starry 
  firmament 
  on 
  high 
  

   is 
  scarce 
  more 
  awe-inspiring 
  than 
  the 
  spiritual 
  edifice 
  

   scientific 
  and 
  ethical, 
  artistic 
  and 
  religious 
  which 
  man 
  has 
  

   built 
  outside 
  himself. 
  Neither 
  in 
  peace 
  nor 
  in 
  war 
  can 
  

   we 
  ignore 
  the 
  larger 
  values 
  of 
  the 
  true, 
  the 
  beautiful, 
  and 
  

   the 
  good 
  without 
  imperilling 
  body 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  soul. 
  What- 
  

   ever 
  theory 
  we 
  adopt 
  about 
  body 
  and 
  mind 
  monist 
  or 
  dual- 
  

   ist, 
  correlationist 
  or 
  interactionist, 
  organicist 
  or 
  animist 
  

   these 
  facts 
  remain. 
  

  

  One 
  of 
  Darwin's 
  services 
  was 
  to 
  show 
  man's 
  solidarity 
  

   with 
  the 
  rest 
  of 
  creation, 
  his 
  affiliation 
  to 
  a 
  mammalian 
  

  

  

  

  stock. 
  That 
  this 
  was 
  a 
  very 
  important 
  contribution 
  to 
  human 
  

   thought 
  is 
  recognised 
  almost 
  unanimously, 
  arid 
  no 
  one 
  any 
  

   longer 
  dreams 
  that 
  the 
  dignity 
  or 
  value 
  of 
  a 
  result 
  is 
  affected 
  

   by 
  the 
  historical 
  conditions 
  of 
  its 
  becoming 
  or 
  evolution. 
  

   Yet 
  it 
  seems 
  fair 
  to 
  point 
  out 
  the 
  risk, 
  that 
  focussing 
  atten- 
  

   tion 
  on 
  the 
  rock 
  whence 
  Man 
  was 
  hewn 
  and 
  the 
  pit 
  whence 
  

   he 
  was 
  digged, 
  may 
  lead 
  to 
  an 
  under-estimate 
  of 
  the 
  apart- 
  

   ness 
  and 
  uniqueness 
  of 
  Man 
  as 
  compared 
  with 
  the 
  rest 
  of 
  

   creation. 
  He 
  is 
  separated 
  off 
  by 
  reason 
  or 
  the 
  power 
  of 
  

   conceptual 
  inference, 
  by 
  morality 
  or 
  the 
  habit 
  of 
  control- 
  

   ling 
  his 
  conduct 
  in 
  reference 
  to 
  ideals, 
  by 
  the 
  possession 
  of 
  

   true 
  language 
  or 
  Logos. 
  Man 
  was 
  the 
  greatest 
  of 
  mutations 
  

   a 
  new 
  synthesis; 
  and 
  it 
  is 
  certain 
  that 
  in 
  him 
  organismal 
  

  

  