166 THE PROBLEM OF EVOLUTION 



The points on the cortex which Flechsig 

 calls ' organs of thought,' have by no means 

 been proved to be such. In his work on 

 Functional and Organic Nervous Diseases, en- 

 titled Grenzfragen des N 'erven- und Seelenlebens 

 (Investigations regarding the limits of nervous 

 and intellectual life), ii., 1900, p. 77, Ober- 

 steiner states very definitely : ' We see, in 

 fact, that we can ascribe with certainty to the 

 known cortical centres only processes of a more 

 material character.' On p. 78 he describes 

 Flechsig' s discovery of the ' organs of thought ' 

 as an unsuccessful attempt, assailable from 

 the anatomical, as well as from the physio- 

 logical and clinical points of view. Thus Dr. 

 Juliusburger asserted more than he was in a 

 position to prove, when he said that, by 

 means of localising the cerebral functions, 

 evidence had been afforded that our higher 

 intellectual life was c not a simple but a very 

 compound quantity.' Only its lower sub- 

 sidiary processes have hitherto been to some 

 extent regarded as localised. Thus he has 

 proved nothing against the existence of a 

 simple soul, as both the lower and the higher 

 activities of the soul unite in one simple psy- 

 chical joint action. 



This answer may be summed up shortly in 

 the following sentence : The intellectual life 

 of man, regarded as an accumulation of isolated 



