166 THE PROBLEM OF EVOLUTION 



The points on the cortex which Flechsig 

 calls organs of thought, have by no means 

 been proved to be such. In his work on 

 Functional and Organic Nervous Diseases, en 

 titled Grenzfragen des N erven- und Seelenlebens 

 (Investigations regarding the limits of nervous 

 and inteUectual life), ii., 1900, p. 77, Ober- 

 steiner states very definitely : We see, in 

 fact, that we can ascribe with certainty to the 

 known cortical centres only processes of a more 

 material character. On p. 78 he describes 

 Flechsig s discovery of the organs of thought 

 as an unsuccessful attempt, assailable from 

 the anatomical, as well as from the physio 

 logical and clinical points of view. Thus Dr. 

 Juliusburger asserted more than he was hi a 

 position to prove, when he said that, by 

 means of localising the cerebral functions, 

 evidence had been afforded that our higher 

 intellectual life was not a simple but a very 

 compound quantity. , Only its lower sub 

 sidiary processes have hitherto been to some 

 extent regarded as localised. Thus he has 

 proved nothing against the existence of a 

 simple soul, as both the lower and the higher 

 activities of the soul unite in one simple psy 

 chical joint action. 



This answer may be summed up shortly in 

 the following sentence: The intellectual life 

 of man, regarded as an accumulation of isolated 



