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presence somewhere of an invisible enemy, and he does 

 his best to discover him so that he may know why 

 this person has acted in this way. In other words, 

 action cannot be separated from the doer or actor. 



Now the result of many years' study of the West 

 African's mode of thought leads to the conclusion that 

 he is (in however backward a state) a scientific, 

 religious, and law-abiding man, and in this way he is 

 fundamentally at one with other human beings all over 

 the world. 



Let me substitute for the words Religion, Science, 

 and Law, those of Instinct, Reason, and Habit. It is 

 easy to understand that Habit is where Reason and 

 Instinct meet ; and as the native would say, it is their 

 offspring. That is to say, Habit is of the instrument 

 Reason, through the doer Instinct, and this Instinct (to 

 fall in with the African's philosophy) must have an 

 ancestor from which it has come. Let us call this 

 ancestor Personality. Then under the heading 

 Personality we have the parts Instinct, Reason, and 

 Habit. These four are invisible : how can man know 

 that they exist ? The manner in which he is made to 

 know that a something we call Instinct exists is by 

 Sensation or Impression. Reason comes to him by 

 Experience and Movement, and Habit by Capacity 

 and Thought, and in this way he shows himself to be 

 a knowing or conscious being. 



He is quite at liberty to ignore his Instinct and 

 Reason, and he may refuse to submit to Habit, but he 

 must take the consequences. His family will call him 

 irreligious, ignorant, and criminal. 



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