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taneously and pari passu in the mental activity which we 

 call consciousness. The world is not the creature and result 

 of the Mind, as idealists would have it; nor is the Mind 

 the resultant of external stimuli on the brain, as the 

 materialists would have it. Experience is one; and experi- 

 ence as it becomes conscious differentiates or unfolds itself 

 into the Subject-Object relation. They are the double 

 aspects of experience at its conscious level, and reflect but 

 the duality of the source of Mind itself. The inmost nature 

 and essence of Mind is this activity which appears as con- 

 sciousness and the Subject and Object aspects which crystal- 

 lise out of it in experience. They are at bottom and in real 

 truth not independents, but dependent correlates in the 

 psychic medium called consciousness. A clear and firm 

 realisation of this fundamental fact is basic for all true 

 science and philosophy alike. We saw in Chapter VII 

 what insoluble problems arise for both science and thought 

 from hypostatising Mind and Body as independent reals or 

 substances. Here we are at the tap-root of this source of 

 error. Mind-and-Body is but a particular form of the 

 general Subject-Object situation. They are not inde- 

 pendents, they are in ter dependents ; they are poles in the 

 field of Mind; they are elements or rather aspects of the 

 same reality given in solution in experience and precipitated 

 from it by consciousness — to use a chemical metaphor. 

 Out of this fundamental unity Mind in the larger sense has 

 elaborated our experience of both the inner and the outer 

 worlds, of the self and the external universe. It is the 

 business of psychology to show how this has been done, 

 and to trace the progressive stages in this constructive 

 process. For me it is only necessary here to emphasise 

 that no correct interpretation of experience is possible 

 unless we bear in mind that both the Subject and Object 

 aspects are absolutely essential to it. Subject and Object 

 are held together in experience as necessary elements in 

 the unity of Holism from which both are differentiated. 

 Neither element can be ignored in our reading and explora- 

 tion of experience. The Einstein standpoint of Relativity 



