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living organism. He is the real man; and 

 his relation to the man as merely material, or 

 as merely organism, is the relation of reality 

 to an abstract and imperfect presentation 

 of it. The man we see as a person is the 

 actual man ; he is neither a conscious auto 

 maton, if any trace of meaning could be 

 attached to such a conception, nor a machine 

 controlled by a soul or mind inside. The 

 question of the relation of mind to body 

 is a logical question ; and the confusion 

 which so easily rises on the subject is nothing 

 but a logical confusion. 



Our conception of the man as a person is 

 evidently only a general conception, of which 

 the details are very imperfectly filled in at 

 the best. Of much that is in the man we 

 can only form the blurred and imperfect 

 conception afforded to us by the biological 

 or physical view of him. Only by degrees 

 do we learn to read his character in his 

 actions, words, and features. But we know 

 that his reality lies in his personality, because 

 we cannot in any way reduce this person 

 ality to lower terms, such as matter or 

 organism. 



