ABSTRACT
MIND as a term is undefinable and as a process unthinkable. We simply have to accept it, to assume it, and to make the best effort possible to classify its various powers, always keeping in mind that, though its control centres have their pieds-à-terre in the brain, yet each cell of the body adds its quota to the product, and, like the private soldier, makes the army of which the direction is in the hands of comparatively few specially-trained men. Its division, made solely for convenience, into conscious, subconscious and unconscious, is even artificial, since there is a free communication between them all. How then can we assign values ; and how are the values to be expressed; and how are we to allow for the essential fluidity of mind and for the consequent perpetual shifting of our values? The problem is insoluble.
