THE PRIMAL MIND 
say, “Surely they are our children, bone of our bone, 
and flesh of our flesh”! 
A recent critic says that my principal mistake is 
in considering life and mind as concrete realities 
when, in fact, they are only abstract terms, indicat- 
ing conditions of matter. In the act of denying 
mind do we not affirm mind? What is it but mind 
that makes that statement denying all reality to 
mind? Is not the assertion self-destructive? If we 
affirm that the only concrete reality is matter, what 
are we going to do about our minds that make this 
affirmation? Are they unreal or nonentities? Can 
a nonentity grasp and weigh an entity? We cannot 
use our eyes to prove that there are no eyes in the 
universe, nor our reason to dethrone reason. Sci- 
ence cannot cut the ground from under its own feet. 
Huxley was convinced that there were three realities 
in the universe — matter, energy, and consciousness. 
How could he affirm the reality of matter and energy 
if he denied the reality of that which affirmed it? 
If we are not sure of our own existence as knowing, 
reasoning beings, how can we be sure of this uncer- 
tainty? Our light is self-extinguished; mind, or 
consciousness, belongs to a different order of reality 
than do matter and energy. We know mind only as 
a subjective reality, whereas we know matter and 
energy as objective realities. Destroy all life and 
consciousness in the world of matter, and energy 
still exists. Of course, this assertion is also self- 
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