NOTE ON THE RELA'IKJN iiETv\EE:, MINI) AND lAjUY. 2^i 



life, fuller adjustment, i.c-, towards completer relations with other 

 beings similarly striving towards perfected experience. And 

 each further achievement gets embedded, as psychology shows, in 

 the bodily organization, i.e., develops further the mechanism that 

 makes fuller experience permanently possible. That is why only 

 a tine bodily organization, a fine mechanism of tendencies, capaci- 

 ties, susceptibilities of feeling and impression, can be the vehicle 

 of the manifestation of a fine soul — " a spirit finely touched to 

 fine issues." As the soul or the individual nature develops, there- 

 fore, the body develops, and conversely the development of the 

 body, which is its organ or instrument of experience, makes per- 

 manently possible the further development of the soul. 



Materialism is able to show that body conditions mind, 

 because the body is the mechanism of tendency and aptitude 

 which constitutes the conditions of the manifestation of mind. 

 Psychism is able to show that body or matter is not anything 

 fundamentally different from mind. Ijut is mind itself in disguise, 

 becatise the body is consciousness become mechanized through 

 habit and so made crass enough to be visible, tangible, etc., i.e., 

 to be the constant or permanent medium of communication and 

 mutual influence between one individual being and others. Paral- 

 lelism is able to show that body and nnnd together form one 

 reality, because habit and effort, automatism and spontaneity, 

 mechanized action and selective attention are the two phases of 

 the actual life-experience. Lastly, interactionism is true not as 

 meaning- causal action between two wholly disparate things, but 

 because life is the mutual influence of individual beings through 

 the mechanism of acquired tendency and aptitude, and there is 

 continuous development of individual experience through the de- 

 velopment of the bodily organization and of the bodily organiza- 

 tion through every manifestation of individual activity. To 

 quote, in conclusion, a sentence from alreadv published work 

 of my own : 



The body or organism, in distinction from the mind or consciousness, 

 means, in the actual life process of the individual, those dispositions and 

 habits and impulses, with their legacy from the past and potentiality for 

 the future, which form the basis of present effort — the stuff or material 

 of which our life is to be shaped, expressive at once of our limitations 

 and our opportunities. 



Thus there are not body and mind as two dift'erent things. There 

 is an individual being, whose life is partly habit, automatism, 

 mechanized modes of impression and influence, and partly eft'ort, 

 attention, initiative moukling, developing, transforming its own 

 organ or instrument of fuller life. 



(Read. July 4, 1917). 



