THE PRIMAL MIND 



say, "Surely they are our children, bone of our bone, 

 and flesh of our flesh" ! 



A recent critic says that my principal mistake is 

 in considering life and mind as concrete realities 

 when, in fact, they are only abstract terms, indicat- 

 ing conditions of matter. In the act of denying 

 mind do we not affirm mind? What is it but mind 

 that makes that statement denying all reality to 

 mind? Is not the assertion self -destructive? If we 

 affirm that the only concrete reality is matter, what 

 are we going to do about our minds that make this 

 affirmation? Are they unreal or nonentities? Can 

 a nonentity grasp and weigh an entity? We cannot 

 use our eyes to prove that there are no eyes in the 

 universe, nor our reason to dethrone reason. Sci- 

 ence cannot cut the ground from under its own feet. 

 Huxley was convinced that there were three realities 

 in the universe matter, energy, and consciousness. 

 How could he affirm the reality of matter and energy 

 if he denied the reality of that which affirmed it? 

 If we are not sure of our own existence as knowing, 

 reasoning beings, how can we be sure of this uncer- 

 tainty? Our light is self -extinguished; mind, or 

 consciousness, belongs to a different order of reality 

 than do matter and energy. We know mind only as 

 a subjective reality, whereas we know matter and 

 energy as objective realities. Destroy all life and 

 consciousness in the world of matter, and energy 

 still exists. Of course, this assertion is also self- 

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