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do any work where I heard them was the difficulty. 

 Th is was I pulled two ways, and my state was that 

 of h;ing in, or between, "two minds." My wish was 

 that these same two minds could have two bodies 

 with sets of senses complete, so that each might be 

 able to follow its own line. I envied the chameleon 

 just then — a strange creature which is said to change 

 its colour according to its surroundings. That, 

 however, is merely a physical condition, one which 

 it shares with certain other creatures without any 

 mind at all, or in which the mind is dormant, as, for 

 example, in some chrysalids. It is a minor mystery; 

 the big mystery of the chameleon, the pretty problem 

 for the students of animal psychology, is the divisi- 

 bility of its mind, the faculty of being two persons 

 in one body, each thinking and acting independently 

 of the other. Observe him in a domestic state, sitting 

 on a branch in a room, in appearance a deformed 

 lizard, or the skeleton of one, encased in a discoloured, 

 granulated skin, long dried to a parchment. The 

 most remarkable feature is the head, which reminds 

 one of a grotesque mediaeval carving in or on some 

 old church, of a toad-like or fish-like human creature, 

 with a countenance expressive of some ancient, for- 

 gotten kind of wisdom. He is absolutely motion- 

 less, dead or asleep one might imagine; but on a 

 closer scrutiny you discover that he is not only awake 

 and alive, but that he has two lives in him — in 

 other words, that the two hemispheres of his brain 

 are working separately, each occupied with its own 

 problem. It may be seen in his eyes — minute round 



