690 PROBLEMS IN REGARD TO LOCALIZATION. 



arise which underlie Conscious States, and how they again 

 subside into more ordinary nerve actions, must, from the 

 very nature of the problem, ever remain impossible. But 

 we certainly should not on this account allow ourselves to 

 be mentally paralysed by a belief in the existence of a 

 metaphysical gulf between what is termed the Subjec- 

 tive and the Objective the ' Ego ' and the ' Non-Ego.' 

 Yet, even some believers in the philosophy of evolution 

 have thus been led to deny the natural origin of Con- 

 scious States, and have as a consequence found them- 

 selves forced to hold a doctrine of thoroughgoing ' Auto- 

 matism ' one in which all notions of Free Will, Duty, 

 and Moral Obligation would seem from this theoretical 

 basis to be alike consigned to a common grave, together 

 with the underlying powers of self-education and self- 

 control. 



