ON THE REALITY OF THE SELF. ay 
side of the argument, and this it was which got me into trouble 
with another of the speakers on the question of the mind’s 
locality. Returning to that illustration, the question, to my mind, 
is simply this. If you take your man, walking, say through the 
streets, and going through a number of particular automatic 
processes, let us bring him to his counting house or office, or what- 
ever it may be, and let him have presented before him a sudden 
problem, or difficulty of trade or business, or what not, with 
which he deals; I want to know which is the real man, the one who 
has been walking through the street, or the one who is suddenly 
confronted with such a problem ?—which is his real mind ?—or 
rather, which are the processes with which psychology should 
deal? There can be no doubt that the real man is the man who 
in consciousness deals with the new problem which comes before 
him and to which he devotes all the attention he can. That is the 
realman. It is the life of consciousness and intelligence that 
throws light on the automatic without which intelligent life 
cannot proceed, as I have tried to show in the Paper.* I am 
* It would require another lecture to put the difference between 
Mr. Barkworth and myself clearly. It is the whole difference 
between a man who believes in a spiritualistic hypothesis and one 
who regards the mechanism as at least as important as the 
informing intelligence. 
Every one recognises that there are unconscious automatic acts. 
Why not? We have a body which in its structure and in its 
functions is simply a mechanism of a higher kind. What 
difficulty is there in its often working in a purely mechanical 
fashion ? This is all that Mr. Barkworth’s illustration seems to 
me to prove, and when he asks me, whether I mean by “mind” 
that which directs these unconscious proceedings or that which 
is preoccupied with a different subject, I answer neither and both. 
The mind does not always direct unconscious proceedings any 
more than the engineer is always directing separate bits of 
machinery. In the last resort, however, it is the engineer who is 
mainly responsible, as we see directly he has a different piece of 
work to turn out. Why the possession of an organism with a 
nicely balanced adjustment of means and ends, should disprove 
the existence of a rational soul I cannot conceive. 
The ordinary staff could bring out a daily newspaper five days 
out of six, but if a particular policy is to be inaugurated, the 
presence of the editor is required. W. L. Courrney. 
