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abstraction-making intellect. 'Body' and 'soul' 

 are not given actualities of experience, but arti- 

 ficial mental constructions of our own" (Taylor, 

 1903, p. 314). We are the realities, who pigeon- 

 hole for purposes of study our "mind" and our 

 "body." 



The scientific inquirer may try to remain as 

 a student of "the original unity of his experience," 

 agnostically confronting one of the great mysteries 

 of the world, but as a man he soon strains at his 

 self-made tether. And he is likely to be soon 

 back at the old questions: Which is primary 

 the Brain or the Mind? Is the brain the instru- 

 ment or means, rather than the condition or 

 cause, of mental development? Do the bodily 

 changes form an unbroken causal series, some- 

 times associated with states of consciousness, 

 which are effects, but never causes? Or is there 

 a curious double series of cerebral events and 

 psychical events, running "parallel" (whatever 

 that may mean) but not causally connected? Or 

 are there two series of processes going on which 

 interact, causally influencing one another at 

 different points, sensation being a mental state 

 which has bodily processes (in the nervous stimu- 

 lation) among its immediate antecedents, and a 

 motor reaction similarly a bodily process with 

 mental antecedents (our will)? We need not go 

 farther: the scientific inquirer has landed in the 



