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hitherto denied to life. In the first place, he is able 

 to order his experiences in a totally new way, differ- 

 ing from the old very much as a classified card- 

 index differs from a rough diary-record of events. 

 The organization of his mind is elastic, capable of in- 

 definite expanion and of specialization in any direc- 

 tion. 



That being so, there will be always parts of his 

 mind wholly or at least partially undeveloped; and 

 in any case the capacities which he must employ in 

 his everyday life, the region of his mind illuminated 

 by the attention needed in the struggle for existence, 

 constitute but a fraction of his mental self and its 

 potentialities. 



This brings us on to one of the most important 

 achievements of modern psychology — the discovery 

 and analysis of the subconscious. Impossible here 

 to go into detail; we must content ourselves with 

 a few broad statements. When we speak of the sub- 

 conscious mind, we mean that in man there exist 

 processes which appear for many reasons to be of 

 the same nature as those of the normal mind (in that 

 they are associated with the same parts of the nerv- 

 ous system, fulfil the same general biological func- 

 tions, and probably operate through similar mecha- 

 nisms), with the single exception that we are not 

 conscious of them as such.^ 



The conscious mind, that which we think of as 



7 See Prince, '06 and '16; Freud, '22; Jung, '19; Rivers, '20; 

 Brown, '22. 



