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benefit which we cannot fail to derive from this raost interesting 

 paper. 



Mr. Anderson, C.B., LL.D. — I should say that I very sincerely 

 thank Dr. Schofield for this valuable paper. I confess I came here, 

 as the last speaker did, hoping to hear his own definition of mind. 

 On the other hand, I must say that T concur fully in what the author 

 says — that you can train children better while they are unconscious 

 than when they are conscious. It is a fact, as I have seen myself, 

 in that far-off British colony, the Mauritius, where we have to 

 deal with a great number of children — especially uncivilised 

 children coming from the depths of the centre of India — that it 

 has been much easier to train these young minds when they do 

 things unconsciously than when they do things consciously. I 

 think I would not, in physiology, abandon the term "unconscious 

 mind " and I think we can hold to it, that mind is conscious or 

 unconscious. I was present at a strange incident that happened 

 the other day in Paris. I was attending an operation on a boy of 

 nine years old, under chloroform, and, at a certain moment, the boy 

 became pale and his lips turned blue and he ceased to breathe. A 

 fellow student of mine came near me and said, " Where is the soul 

 now ? Can you answer me, Anderson ? " I was non-plussed, I 

 confess, but I said " Certainly, it must be somewhere." But by 

 some power which, of course, the surgeon exerted, the little 

 fellow came to. In the presence of that example I said to myself, 

 *' Under the power of chloroform the mind becomes, certainly, 

 unconscious." The brain had no power to act, but there was 

 reflex action, because we saw the beating of the heart and the 

 breathing of the lungs. 



This is a very absorbing subject, and the more we study it the 

 sooner the light will lead us through this mystery called mind. 



I thank Di\ Schofield very much indeed for his paper. I am 

 only sorry that I had not time to read it before I came to this 

 hall. 



The Chairman. — Before Dr. Schofield replies I should just like 

 to ask him one question. We had from him a very interesting 

 account of the action of an amoeba, and, although its actions were 

 exceedingly like the results of mind, I would like to ask Dr. 

 Schofield whether he feels disposed to extend the range of what 

 we call mind to the action of that amoeba, or to similar actions 

 fimongst very lowly organic forms ? 



