940 Dynamic Theory. 



elusive function, the personality appears to be transformed. Strip off 

 a whole layer of the highest centers that highest super-ordinate organ- 

 ization of them that ministers to abstract reasoning and moral feeling 

 you reduce man to the condition of one of the higher animals. Take 

 away all the supreme centers, you bring him to the state of a simply 

 sentient creature. Remove the centers of sense, you reduce him to a 

 bare vegetative existence when, like a cabbage, he has an objective but 

 no subjective ego. " 



CHAPTER LXXXII. 



MULTIPLE EGO-SEVERAL PERSONS IN ONE. 



It was a common notion amongst the aborigines in various parts of 

 America and in Madagascar, that each man has several souls. Pulsa- 

 tions observed in different parts of the body, seemed to them to indi- 

 cate so many different seats of life. The inconsistencies and contra- 

 dictory impulses governing the actions of men, also lend countenance 

 to this notion. The Feejians believed everyone possessed of two 

 spirits. 1 St. Paul says, < < For what I would, that do I not ; but what I 

 hate, that do I." "Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that 

 dwelleth in me." "So then with the mind I myself serve the law of 

 God, but with the flesh, the law of sin. " 2 



The Irish soldier who ran away at the first fire, excused himself by 

 affirming that while he himself was as brave as a lion, he had under 

 him a cowardly pair of legs that could not be restrained from running 

 away. 



There is a sort of insanity which appears in two opposite phases, 

 which alternate with each other. In one of these, the patient is af- 

 fected by great elevation of spirits. He is confident, elated, egotistical, 

 free and open with his private affairs, unreserved, prodigal, full of in- 

 flated schemes, extravagant in his ideas, and unrestrained in his deport- 

 ment. In the other phase he is equally depressed, gloomy, and apa- 

 thetic. He is reserved, diffident and silent, lacks energ} 7 and confidence, 

 and is oppressed by a feeling of incapacity and inability to plan or 

 carry out anything to a successful issue. In these two states the phy- 

 sical condition of the individual is as different as are his feelings and 

 deportment. In the one he has an animated, buoyant and vigorous ap- 

 pearance, the skin is fresh and smooth and soft, and the eyes bright, 

 the pulse strong, and digestion good. In the other, he looks like a dif- 

 ferent person ; his eye is dull, skin wrinkled, pulse weak, digestion 

 poor, and even his hair may become more or less gray. If the patient 



1 Lubbock, Origin of Civilization, 247 2 Romans 7, 15. 



