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Attention, Volition or Will ; and we do not exclude the 

 multitudinous results of mere unconscious nerve actions, 

 which constitute so many integral parts of our mental 

 life — interpolating themselves from moment to moment, 

 and having their origin in various parts of our nervous 

 system. The functional results of outgoing currents, 

 however, lie wholly beyond the sphere of mind : they 

 terminate in such physico-vital phenomena, as the con- 

 traction or the arrest of contraction in Muscles, and the 

 stimulation or the reverse of Glandular Activity — events 

 which are in no sense mental, though brought about by 

 nervous influence. They are purely physical phenomena, 

 and are taken cognizance of by means of special impres- 

 sions made upon and conducted to the Cerebrum by such 

 ingoing or sensory nerves as are in relation with the moving 

 parts or secretory organs.* 



Here a difficulty at once presents itself. It will doubt- 

 less be said on all sides that we cannot rightly group the 

 various Conscious States which accompany certain nerve 

 actions (subjective phenomena) with mere unconscious 

 nerve actions (objective phenomena). These two groups 

 of phenomena, it is always said, are separated from one 

 another by what appears to be utter dissimilarity of nature, 

 as typified by the fundamental contrast of Subject and 

 Object (the Ego and the Non-Ego). 



This is an objection based upon our ignorance as to the 

 exact genetic relation existing between subjective states 

 and the bodily conditions (or nervous actions) on which 

 they seem to be dependent. It is probably due to an 

 equal extent to a temporary forgetfulness on the part of 

 those who advance it, that we are as much in the dark as 

 to the real nature of Motion as we are about the real mode 



* These questions as to the relation of ' outgoing currents ' to 

 Mind will be fully discussed in Chap. xxvi. 



