The Destiny of Man. 45 



have learned the piece by heart, you think 

 nothing of either notes or keys, but play 

 automatically while your attention is con- 

 centrated upon the artistic character of the 

 music. If somebody thoughtlessly inter- 

 rupts you with a question about Egyptian 

 politics, you go on playing while you an= 

 swer him politely. That is, where you had 

 at first to make a conscious act of volition 

 for each movement, the whole group of 

 movements has now become automatic, and 

 volition is only concerned in setting the 

 process going. As the delay involved in 

 the perception and the movement disap- 

 pears, so does the consciousness of the 

 perception and the movement tend to dis. 

 appear. Consciousness implies perpetual 

 discrimination, or the recognition of like- 

 nesses and differences, and this is impossi- 

 ble unless impressions persist long enough 

 to be compared with one another. The 

 physical organs in connection with whose 

 activity consciousness is manifested are the 

 upper and outer parts of the brain, the 



